The travellers will be asked to carry out daily self checks for fever and provide contact details of friends or family in case follow-up is needed, he said.
The new measures came a day after the US Department of Homeland Security announced that all passengers from the affected region would have to fly into one of five airports that have additional screening measures in place.
At the same time, officials at Liberi a’s international airport began using databases to match relatives against lists of Ebola patients , in order to stop any boarding, even if they showed no symptoms and were not contagious, Binyah Kessely, the Liberian Airport Authority chairman told AFP.
“We want to avoid being embarrassed whenever someone leaves Liberia to go to another country,” he said , referring to two Liberi an citizens who carried the virus into Nigeria in July an d the United States in September.
– Riot –
In Sierra Leone, two people died in a riot which erupted on Tuesday when health workers tried to take a blood sample from a 90 year old woman suspected of having Ebola.
A machete-wielding mob clashed with security personnel in the eastern town of Koidu and then went on a rampage, doctors told AFP. Several buildings were attacked and gangs of youths roamed the streets shouting “No more Ebola!”
In neighbouring Liberi a, WHO found the number of cases had been underestimated , especially in the capital Monrovia.
But a member of the Doctors Without Borders team, working in the northern town of Foya t old President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who was visiting, that the town could “soon be declared” Ebola free, after no new cases had been reported in three weeks.
Meanwhile, the latest contingent of 83 Cuban nurses and doctors headed to Liberia and Guinea on Wednesday bringing the total number of Cuban health workers in west Africa to at least 248.
In the US, a Texas nurse infected with Ebola after caring for a Liberian man who died from the disease no longer has the virus, her family said.
On Thursday, EU heads of government meet in Brussels and are expected to boost efforts in the fight against Ebola.
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