Inside the Ebola lockdown.

Documentary-maker Tim Mansel interviews Sierra Leoneans during the Ebola lockdown in 2014. Soundbites are played of President Ernest Bai Koroma delivering a speech to the nation on the eve of the 3-day Stay at Home Campaign, in which he strongly encourages Sierra Leoneans to stay indoors for 3 full days to avoid the spread of Ebola. Head of the Centre on Global Health Security Professor David Heymann discusses the difference in transmission between the first Ebola outbreak in 1976 and the most recent outbreak in 2014. Mansel recounts his experiences visiting Freetown, Sierra Leone, and the discernible lack of awareness-raising for the epidemic. He interviews various residents of Freetown during the days leading up to the lockdown. A young teacher from Nyamira Boys’ Home performs a song about Ebola. British teacher Miriam Mason-Sesay explains her school’s efforts to facilitate the Stay At Home Campaign. Mansel then contacts residents during the lockdown to relate their experiences. He contacts Joshua Salia, whose job is to collect the bodies of Ebola victims after death and transport them for burial. Stephen Ngaugah from the Emergency Operations Center in Freetown discusses the number of reported Ebola cases during the lockdown. Mansel explains the importance of handing out soap throughout the community during the Stay At Home Campaign. Heymann discusses the state of Sierra Leone’s health system since the Ebola outbreak. Later, he discusses the success of the lockdown. Mason-Sesay recounts Bai Koroma’s announcement of subsequent quarantines in other districts of Sierra Leone, organised as a direct result of the success of Freetown’s Stay At Home Campaign.