Liberia extends stay-home order amid Ebola crisis
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By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia's president ordered most civil servants to stay home another month in an effort to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, according to a statement released Monday.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ordered non-essential workers not to come to work and promised that all government workers would still be paid.
Liberia's schools are already closed in the effort to keep large numbers of people from gathering and potentially spreading the disease.
The World Health Organization says up to 20,000 people may contract the virus before it is put under control, and that it could take six months to do so.
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A woman, center, reacts as she and others celebrate on the streets outside of West Point, that have been closed in by Liberian security forces to stop all movement the past week in a attempt to control the Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. Liberia says it will open up a slum in its capital where thousands of people were barricaded to contain the spread of Ebola. Information Minister Lewis Brown says lifting the quarantine Saturday morning will not mean there is no Ebola in the West Point Slum. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
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