Summary:
March-April 2014: Ebola outbreak first detected in Guinea; National Ebola Task Force established in Sierra Leone
May 2014: First Ebola case reported in Sierra Leone near the border with Guinea, with rapid caseload spread as a result of the movement of health care workers.
June 2014: IFRC Field Assessment and Coordination team (FACT) deployed (rapid assessment);
Emergency Appeal launched for CHF 880,000.July 2014: IFRC Appeal revision n° 1 issued for CHF 1.36m; Emergency Response Units deployed to establish the Ebola Treatment Centre in Kenema with extraordinary DREF allocation of CHF 1m.
September-October 2014: with confirmed caseload spiraling out of control and twelve out of thirteen districts affected; IFRC issues Appeal revision n° 2 for CHF 12.85m, followed by revision n° 3 for CHF 41.1m.
March 2015: Appeal revision n° 4 for CHF 56.8m.
June 2015: Appeal revision n° 5 for CHF 94M to extend from emergency to recovery phase
November 2015: The Government of Sierra Leone declared that the Ebola outbreak is over.