Liberia imposes 21-day isolation on DRC travellers after Nigeria Ebola case
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on The Liberian Investigator
Liberia is imposing 21 days of self-isolation on travellers arriving from or transiting through the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with daily monitoring. Travellers from Uganda, Kenya or Nigeria will be monitored for the same period after Nigeria confirmed an Ebola case, according to Sia Wata Camanor and Liberian health authorities.
Liberia is imposing 21 days of self-isolation and health monitoring on travellers arriving from or transiting through the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after Nigeria confirmed an Ebola case, according to Sia Wata Camanor, acting director-general of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL). The measure, effective immediately, is set out in travel advisory No. 2 issued jointly by NPHIL and the Ministry of Health.
Travellers from Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria will also be monitored for 21 days, but will not be required to isolate. The Nigerian case involves a woman who arrived in Abuja on 20 October after travelling from the DRC via Uganda. Nigerian authorities have identified 44 contacts and begun tracing them, Camanor said at a press briefing on Thursday in Monrovia.
Liberia has tightened health checks at Roberts International Airport, land borders and its ports. All travellers must complete a form indicating their state of health, recent travel and any contact they may have had with sick people or bodies, according to the joint advisory from NPHIL and the Ministry of Health.
The decision follows the tightening of Ebola screening at points of entry announced by Liberia on 21 October. It comes after Nigeria confirmed an isolated case in a female traveller on 20 October, according to health authorities cited by The Liberian Investigator.
