Guinea has closed its border with Sierra Leone as part of new efforts to stamp out Ebola.
Cmdr. Mamadou Alpha Barry, spokesman for the national gendarmerie, said the border was closed starting Monday. President Alpha Conde announced this weekend that emergency measures would be "reinforced" for a 45-day period in five districts, including some along the border with Sierra Leone.
Previously, Guinean authorities had monitored people crossing into the country for symptoms of the disease.
But Guinea is now ramping up efforts to eliminate Ebola, which is stubbornly entrenched in the country more than a year after the outbreak started. By contrast, Liberia currently has no Ebola patients, and Sierra Leone has seen a fairly steady decline in cases.
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