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Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo |27 August 2014

Seychellois should not travel to DRC

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been added to the list of countries to which Seychelles citizens will not be allowed to travel without the expressed permission of the Public Health Commissioner as part of measures to prevent the Ebola virus from being introduced in Seychelles.

The Seychelles Public Health Authority made the announcement through a communiqué yesterday after the DRC confirmed its first two cases of Ebola on Monday.

The communiqué writes that all Seychellois nationals will not be allowed to travel to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria and the DRC without the expressed permission of the Public Health Commissioner until the outbreak has been declared over by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Citizens of these five countries and any other foreign nationals who work in Seychelles are still being discouraged from visiting the affected countries. If they do, they will not be allowed to re-enter Seychelles until the outbreak has been declared over by the WHO.

Citizens of any nationals will not be allowed to enter Seychelles if they have visited Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria and DRC for any length of time, adds the communiqué.

Meanwhile, passengers and crew of any ship which have visited the ports of the five countries will not be allowed to disembark in Seychelles, particularly if the visit to the affected countries was less than 21 days ago.

The Public Health Authority is once again discouraging Seychellois from travelling to the whole of west Africa region – Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali, Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Congo, DR Congo, Gambia, Mauritania, Senegal – and citizens of these countries are required to apply for a visa prior to being granted permission to enter Seychelles.
These measures came into force on August 14.

People are also being strongly discouraged from attending any gatherings that may put them into close contact with potentially infected individuals.

The communiqué added that active surveillance will be intensified for all passengers who in spite of measures in place enter Seychelles after having been to any of these five countries – Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria and DR Congo – and any other countries which have declared to have registered local Ebola transmission.

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