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Cape Verde: President Fonseca solicits trust from Cape Verdians in fight against Ebola
Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) – The Cape Verdian president, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, has urged the population to have confidence in measures taken by the government to avoid the spread of the deadly Ebola disease in the island.
On a visit Monday to the island of Maio, President Fonseca told Radio Cape Verde (RCV) that the preventive measures taken by the government of Prime minister José Maria Neves, banning the entry into the country of travellers from the four West African countries affected by the Ebola virus (Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria) were appropriate.
The Cape Verdian president, who met the Prime minister and the minister of Health Cristina Fontes Lima on the issue, called his compatriots and other residents in Cape Verde to follow the evolution of the situation in order to be well-informed.
However, the Movement for Democracy (MpD), the biggest opposition party in the country, has said that the government measure banning the entry of people from affected countries was not made on time.
In a press statement, MpD said, however, that the government decision was natural and similar to measures already taken by countries like Guinea Bissau, Cameroon and Zambia while the Ebola-hit countries had taken similar measures and the most affected, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, had also closed their borders.
The African communities resident in Cape Verde said the entry ban from countries hit by Ebola was fair.
The chairman of the communities, Tony Parker, said that his organization was working with the country’s health authorities in sensitizing African nationals so that they do not travel to countries affected by Ebola.
Meanwhile, the Cape Verdian health authorities on Friday ended its isolation of a boat flying the Chinese flag which arrived from the Ebola-hit Sierra Leone.
The boat was isolated for 21 days at the port of the island of Vicente and, according to the national Health director, Antonio Pedro Delgado, it was released after no Ebola case was detected.
-0- PANA CS/TON/CJB/JSG/MSA/VAO 26Aug2014
On a visit Monday to the island of Maio, President Fonseca told Radio Cape Verde (RCV) that the preventive measures taken by the government of Prime minister José Maria Neves, banning the entry into the country of travellers from the four West African countries affected by the Ebola virus (Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria) were appropriate.
The Cape Verdian president, who met the Prime minister and the minister of Health Cristina Fontes Lima on the issue, called his compatriots and other residents in Cape Verde to follow the evolution of the situation in order to be well-informed.
However, the Movement for Democracy (MpD), the biggest opposition party in the country, has said that the government measure banning the entry of people from affected countries was not made on time.
In a press statement, MpD said, however, that the government decision was natural and similar to measures already taken by countries like Guinea Bissau, Cameroon and Zambia while the Ebola-hit countries had taken similar measures and the most affected, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, had also closed their borders.
The African communities resident in Cape Verde said the entry ban from countries hit by Ebola was fair.
The chairman of the communities, Tony Parker, said that his organization was working with the country’s health authorities in sensitizing African nationals so that they do not travel to countries affected by Ebola.
Meanwhile, the Cape Verdian health authorities on Friday ended its isolation of a boat flying the Chinese flag which arrived from the Ebola-hit Sierra Leone.
The boat was isolated for 21 days at the port of the island of Vicente and, according to the national Health director, Antonio Pedro Delgado, it was released after no Ebola case was detected.
-0- PANA CS/TON/CJB/JSG/MSA/VAO 26Aug2014
