MONROVIA, August 8 (LINA) – The Ministry of National Defense has launched “Operation White Shield” to provide security in places targeted as Ebola-affected areas. It is an effort to fulfill the President’s declaration of the State of Emergency aimed at containing the Ebola virus, according to the Liberia News Agency. 

MONROVIA, August 8 (LINA) - Bomi County Senator Sando Johnson has observed that the county runs the risk of experiencing food shortage due to the ‘abrupt restriction of movement’ placed on the citizens by the State of Emergency.

MONROVIA, August 8 (LINA) - Defense Minister Brownie J. Samukai has called on private companies and business entities operating in the country to contribute towards the effort to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.

TUBMANBURG, August 8 (LINA) - House Speaker Alex J. Tyler has condemned the attitude of some citizens of Momoh and Beasir Towns in Klay District, Bomi County against health workers who had gone to spray the town against the deadly Ebola virus.

MONROVIA, August 8 (LINA) -Vice President Joseph Nyumah Boakai has engaged Liberians residing in Washington D.C. and its suburbs in a three-hour Town Hall dialogue on the prevailing Ebola outbreak in Liberia.

MONROVIA, August 8 (LINA) – Information Minister Lewis G. Brown has disclosed that the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) has now spread to eight of Liberia’s 15 counties. Minister Brown named the counties as Montserrado, Margibi, Lofa, Nimba, Bong, Bomi, Cape Mount and River Cess.

MONROVIA, August 8 (LINA) –The Liberian Senate has unanimously endorsed President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s request to the Upper House to concur on the imposition of a State of Emergency as part of measures to contain the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia.

SUAKOKO, August 7 (LINA) – Residents of the Leper Colony in Suakoko District, Bong County have finally agreed to the construction of an Ebola Treatment Center in the area.

BUCHANAN, August 7 (LINA) - Grand Bassa County and health authorities have set up two points to help contain the spread of the Ebola disease at the Cotton Tree and Big Joe Town checkpoints on the highway leading to and from Buchanan, the provincial capital.

MONROVIA, August 7 (LINA) -About 60 pre-trial inmates with non-violent records were Wednesday released by the Justice Ministry from the Monrovia Central Prison due to overcrowding at the facility.