Ebola Screeners Boost Surveillance as Outbreak Becomes Emergency
- Congo authorities setting up checkpoints at airports, borders
- Latest outbreak is second-worst ever, with 1,500 people dead
Ebola screening station in Goma.
Photographer: John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images
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Authorities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo intensified efforts to screen suspected cases of Ebola as the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global emergency.
Checkpoints are being installed on roads in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu and near entrances to airports and border posts, Theo Ngwabidje Kasi, governor of Congo’s South Kivu province, said by phone. A case of the viral-hemorrhagic illness was detected for the first time this week in Goma, a sprawling city of about 1 million people near the border with Rwanda.