Sierra Leone’s Vice President Sam Sumana has placed himself in quarantine following the Ebola death of one of his guards, a government spokesman said Saturday, as the country reintroduced travel restrictions as the number of new cases rises again.
Sumana “has decided to place himself in precautionary quarantine awaiting the results of tests by the health authorities”, the spokesman said.
Sumana’s bodyguard, 42-year-old John Koroma, died from Ebola on Friday, medical sources said.
Sources at the vice president’s office said Sumana is not in danger but had decided to stay out of his office for the next 21 days and work from his home in the west of the capital.
The government voiced “grave concern” that the fall in the number of new cases seen in the west African nation in recent weeks has been reversed.