Sierra Leone has started a three-day nationwide lockdown in an effort to halt the Ebola outbreak that has left thousands dead in the country.
Under the plan, no one is allowed to leave their homes for three days, allowing 30,000 volunteers to go door-to-door educating people on the deadly virus.
Muslims and Christians were asked to pray at home on Friday and Sunday respectively.
Ebola which draws its name from Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), where one of the first outbreaks occurred in 1976; has ravaged Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia with a few cases in Nigeria. The virus which is spread through contact with bodily fluids has killed at least 2,600 people in these West African nations.