US Ebola quarantine order for citizens returning from DRC slammed
Washington’s new policy that says citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where there is an Ebola outbreak, must spend 21 days in a third country before entering the United States (US) will hinder the response to the epidemic, the head of a large American aid group said.
Franklin Graham, the CEO of an organisation that operates Ebola treatment centers and deploys what he described as the largest number of US responders in DRC, said that he will have to scale back the mission because the quarantine order will complicate the recruitment of healthcare workers.
On Tuesday, Reuters first reported on the new policy from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that blocks Americans in DRC from boarding US-bound commercial flights.
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