'The granting of arrival visas for people entering from DRC has been stopped to conserve the wellbeing of pilgrims' Saudi Arabia takes measures over fears Ebola could spread during next month's Hajj pilgrimage
Health workers collect data before administering Ebola vaccines to civilians at the Himbi Health Centre in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 17, 2019.
The decision, announced in a note issued on Wednesday by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, cited last week's decision by the World Health Organization to declare the Ebola outbreak an international emergency."The granting of arrivals visas for people entering from DRC has been stopped, to conserve the wellbeing of pilgrims," the ministry's note said.About three percent of DRC's population is Muslim, according to polling by the New York-based Congo Research Group.
But WHO has recommended the introduction of a second product made by healthcare company Johnson & Johnson, which could be used for populations removed from the epicentre, while saving limited stocks of the Merck vaccine for the frontlines.WHO also said the US could bolster the battle against the virus by allowing more of its experts to travel to the outbreak zone.
WHO currently has over 600 staff in the field, with 200,000 person-days spent in the field in total, but emergencies chief Mike Ryan told reporters that many agencies could redouble their efforts and deploy more people in the field.
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