Starting next week, the US government will route all travelers who have stayed in Congo and Guinea to six airports designated for Ebola virus health inspection before being allowed to re-enter US territory.
Airlines are also required to collect and transmit passenger information to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for follow-up and public health response for all passengers aboard a flight to the United States who may have stayed in the DRC or Guinea during the previous 21 days.
This information will be shared with U.S. states and local health departments in order to adequately monitor arrivals in their jurisdiction, the CDC said in a statement to air carriers.
Although the CDC has not specified which airports it plans to use, according to several sources, it will be John F. Kennedy in New York, Dulles near Washington, DC, O’Hare in Chicago, Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta, Los Angeles International Airport and Newark Liberty near New York. All of these airports are considered “watch points” for border control purposes.
Tens of thousands of Guineans have made their home in the United States and have settled across the continent, especially on the east coast of the Boston axis in Washington.
In recent weeks, Ebola has resurfaced in Guinea, which had eradicated it during the previous pandemic which ended in December 2015 after killing more than 3,000.
The Biden administration in the midst of the fight against the Covid 19 pandemic is taking these measures to avoid the panic that gripped the United States in 2014 when a traveler from Liberia is killed as a result of Ebola in a hospital from Dallas, Texas and others will be posted to New York.
At the time, citizen Donald Trump, said, speaking of the management of the crisis by the Obama administration in a tweet:
President Obama has an important meeting on the Ebola epidemic in New York with people who come from all over the country, but decided to GO Golf!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2014
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