From Yahoo:
"Canada, Australia must explain visa block on Ebola nations"
The World Health Organization said Wednesday it had asked Canada and Australia to justify their decisions last week to suspend migration from Ebola-hit west African countries. "These are measures that go beyond the recommendations of the WHO's emergency committee," Isabelle Nuttall, who heads WHO's alert and response department, told AFP. Australia on October 27 became the first Western nation to suspend migration from Ebola-hit west African nations, and Canada followed suit four days later. The two countries said the moves were needed to ensure that the deadly virus, which has killed around 5,000 people mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone does not surface within their borders. But Nuttall pointed out that the UN's health agency had recommended only exit screening for people leaving the hardest-hit nations and did not think blocking entry to all their residents was a good way to fight the raging epidemic. The WHO asks any country putting in place measures that interfere with international travel to justify the move from a scientific and public perspective. Such requests had been sent to Canada and Australia and a range of other countries that have put in place similar measures, Nuttall said.
^ Here's what Australia and Canada should tell the WHO: The World Health Organization misjudged the Ebola epidemic in Africa and hasn't been able to organize or contain it. It has since spread to Europe and the US. Until Ebola is contained and countries and people start having a clue on how to fight the disease then no one will be allowed to Australia or Canada that could have been exposed. That is called keeping your citizens safe and trying to stop a deadly disease from spreading. ^
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/poppies-in-demand-as-support-surges-for-military-after-attacks/article21490226/
"Canada, Australia must explain visa block on Ebola nations"
The World Health Organization said Wednesday it had asked Canada and Australia to justify their decisions last week to suspend migration from Ebola-hit west African countries. "These are measures that go beyond the recommendations of the WHO's emergency committee," Isabelle Nuttall, who heads WHO's alert and response department, told AFP. Australia on October 27 became the first Western nation to suspend migration from Ebola-hit west African nations, and Canada followed suit four days later. The two countries said the moves were needed to ensure that the deadly virus, which has killed around 5,000 people mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone does not surface within their borders. But Nuttall pointed out that the UN's health agency had recommended only exit screening for people leaving the hardest-hit nations and did not think blocking entry to all their residents was a good way to fight the raging epidemic. The WHO asks any country putting in place measures that interfere with international travel to justify the move from a scientific and public perspective. Such requests had been sent to Canada and Australia and a range of other countries that have put in place similar measures, Nuttall said.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/poppies-in-demand-as-support-surges-for-military-after-attacks/article21490226/
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