Students have been heading back to schools in Sierra Leone, nine months after classes were cancelled because of the Ebola outbreak.<br /><br /> It is seen as a sign that the tide may be turning against the outbreak, the worst on record, as infections and the spread of the virus is gradually brought under control. <br /><br /> Sierra Leone has reported nearly 12-thousand cases since the epidemic was detected in neighbouring Guinea a year ago. <br /><br /> In all, more than 10-thousand people have died in the two countries and Liberia. <br /><br /> Several schools across Sierra Leone have been used as Ebola care centres, or to treat patients, since the government closed them in June 2014.
