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Danish PM visits Ebola-hit Sierra Leone

Xinhua, January 20, 2015 Adjust font size:

Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt started on Monday a visit to Sierra Leone, where the Ebola disease has raged for almost a year, sources with the PM's office confirmed.

The prime minister is the first head of Western government who visits the African country after it was hit by an Ebola epidemic in March last year, according to the Danish news agency Ritzaus.

Thorning-Schmidt will visit a group of Danish health care workers who are sent to fight the Ebola epidemic in the country, the Ritzaus said.

The health workers are stationed in the city of Port Loko, some 120 km northeast of the capital Freetown.

According to the World Health Organization, more than 21,000 people have so far been infected with the Ebola Viral Disease, out of which over 8,400 deaths were recorded mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Endtiem