DON’T LIVE Jamaica bans travellers from Ebola-affected countries
Jamaica has become the latest nation to bar travellers coming from the Ebola-affected countries of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.
The ban takes immediate effect and follows similar moves in Colombia, Guyana and the Caribbean island of St Lucia.
A government statement said the ban covers ‘certain persons travelling directly or indirectly, from or through’ the three affected West African countries.
The statement went on to clarify that ‘persons ordinarily resident in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as well as persons who have travelled to or transited through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, within 28 days of having departed from these countries,’ will be refused entry.
The government also said Jamaican citizens and permanent residents coming from these countries would be quarantined on arrival ‘in the interest of public health and national security’ for 28 days.
The decision by Jamaica comes as UK Health Secretary Philip Hammond warns Ebola will hit the British Isles within three months.
In the US, the Obama administration is coming under more intense pressure to impose similar restrictions after an Ebola-infected nurse was permitted to fly by commercial jet.
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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