Jamaica bans travelers from Ebola-hit nations

[alp227]

Source: Al Jazeera

Jamaica has ordered an immediate ban on people who have traveled through the Ebola-affected countries of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, joining a growing number of states to impose such restrictions.

The ministry of national security said in a statement on Thursday that the ban covered "certain persons traveling directly or indirectly, from or through" those West African countries, where nearly 4,500 people have died of the disease.

News of the ban comes as opposition Republican politicians in the United States called on President Barack Obama to impose a similar ban, after two nurses who cared for Liberian patient Thomas Eric Duncan contracted the virus. Duncan later died of the disease.

Aside from Jamaica, another South American country, Guyana, said it had denied entry to citizens from the West African states, as well as Nigeria, for the past five weeks. Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia and St. Lucia took similar steps earlier this week.

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/10/jamaica-bans-travelers-from-ebola-hit-nations-201410162286423133.html

[shraby]

1. How many airports do they have to monitor and how many flights per day to those airports?

Lots of difference between those countries and the United States would be my guess.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. The question is how many international airports? Answer is it does not matter, because a person

from there needs a visa to enter the US no matter where that happens, and all entry points are fully aware of immigration laws and processes. Ask anyone who has actually tried to come to the US without a visa.

[procon]

2. Like many of those countries with travel bans

they lack the required hospital facilities, and their national healthcare systems are just not prepared to deal with that kind of medical crisis.

[christx30]

3. I wish the US would have that kind of travel ban.

Yes, we MIGHT be able to handle it. Give me a knife and I MIGHT be able to fight a 900 lb grizzly bear. But I sure as hell wouldn't want to put that to the test.

[Iamthetruth]

8. It's all political

That is why there is no travel ban here.

[JI7]

5. they also don't have as many people

Who go there or would try to illegally with a ban

[Rhinodawg]

4. Why don't they just smoke some ganja and chill ?

Yea mon.

[quadrature]

6. a wise and courageous move

somebody has to lead.

[hedgehog]

9. Does that mean they're banning visitors from the US?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. Maybe, if you have a recent Liberian stamp in your passport

or even a Libyan stamp or Lithuanian stamp, because the spelling is close enough.

Take no chances

[JoePhilly]

11. They better!!!!