The Sierra Leone government is ordering its people from stepping out of their homes to stop the Ebola virus outspread, The Guardian reported.

The Ebola virus has now registered fatality of 2,000 in West Africa as a government spokesman, according to the report, has ordered a lockdown and asked residents to stay inside their homes, in a move to curb the dangerous virus.

The announce lockdown is scheduled from Sept. 18 to 21; Ebola has affected Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

The move however was not welcomed by several international agencies that believe the lockdown will only worsen the spread by preventing people with the virus from seeing treatment.

The Guardian quoted a spokesman of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) as saying, "it has been our experience that lockdowns and quarantines do not help control Ebola as they end up driving people underground and jeopardizing the trust between people and health providers. This leads to the concealment of potential cases and ends up spreading the disease further."

Help overseas are pouring in, the United States has asked its Congress to appropriate at least $58 million for research of vaccines and medicines while the United Nations is forming a crisis center to undertake the global effort to fight the disease.

Director general of the WHO, Dr Margaret Chan stated that there is a need for an international effort to stop the disease and it will cost at least $600 million to curb it.

There is no known cure for the Ebola virus, World Health Organization web site described Ebola as a" severe acute viral illness often characterized by the sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, and in some cases, both internal and external bleeding."