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Liberia holds church service for Ebola victims
March 11, 2015 18:23 GMT
By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberians have held a church service for Ebola victims and to mark the country's 99th celebration National Decoration Day, a holiday normally set aside for people to clean up and re-decorate the graves of their lost relatives.
More than 4,100 people have died in in Liberia since the outbreak began a year ago in West Africa. The vast majority of those victims were cremated, so the gathering at a Presbyterian church in the capital, Monrovia, on Wednesday was held to remember those without graves.
With its last Ebola case being declared cured on March 5, Liberia is now counting 42 days until April 16 when, if no new cases are reported, the country can be declared Ebola-free. Sierra Leone and Guinea are still struggling to contain the outbreak.
