Johannesburg – Although South Africa has not yet put in place travel restrictions to Uganda or Kenya following a recent Ebola scare, authorities say they remain on high alert.
This month, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) issued an alert saying the risk of Ebola spreading to South Africa from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda remained low.
The NICD said despite the low risk, “planning to support timely detection and response to the importation of a case continues”.
The NICD’s Professor Lucille Bloomberg said the chances of Ebola spreading to South Africa from the DRC were low.
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Source: Independent Online
