FREETOWN, (Reuters) – Teams in charge of burying the bodies of Ebola victims in two districts of Sierra Leone have gone on strike over the non-payment of their weekly risk allowances, leaders of the group said yesterday.
Because the Ebola virus is highly infectious and remains active in the corpses of victims, only specialised teams in protective clothing are allowed to remove and dispose of the bodies.
A strike by the burial teams could worsen the outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone, which recorded 121 deaths and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days last week.
