In rural areas of Sierra Leone near the capital, Freetown, an average of 12 new Ebola cases a day were reported in late October, compared to 1.3 in early September, a new report from the Africa Governance Initiative says.
The spread of Ebola is happening "frighteningly quickly" in Sierra Leone, but seems to have slowed down in Liberia, the report adds. In Freetown, the average number of daily cases is six times higher than it was two months ago, and remains a "full-blown crisis."
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