The UK has announced it will fund three Ebola laboratories in Sierra Leone, to help speed up diagnosis of the disease.
The Department for International Development is providing £20 million to set up the laboratories which will quadruple that country’s sample-testing capacity. At present, the testing of samples can take around 5 days, whereas the three additional facilities will be able to deliver results within 24 hours.
One of the laboratories opened alongside the UK-funded Ebola treatment centre in Kerry Town at the end of October; the other two will be located at treatment centres in Port Loko and Makeni.
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