The U.S Department of Homeland Security has announced that arrivals from West African countries experiencing the Ebola outbreak will have to use one of five airports specially-equipped to screen for the Ebola disease. According to an article in
USA Today only travellers from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea will be affected by the new measures that the US government has put in place to help prevent travellers from bringing the Ebola virus into the US.
Beginning on Wednesday, travellers arriving from Ebola-affected African countries will have to use New York’s
John F. Kennedy,
Washington's Dulles,
Chicago's O'Hare, New Jersey's
Newark airport or Atlanta's
Hartsfield-Jackson airports.
The new restrictions on West African travellers are unlikely to be seen as sufficient by many in the US, who have publicly called for total bans on arrivals from West Africa during the current Ebola crisis.
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