Canada, Australia must explain visa block on Ebola nations

The World Health Organisation 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.