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Ebola-hit Liberia bans sailors from disembarking.
Posted: 11:43 am, August 31, 2014 by Asian Desk
Liberia on Saturday said it would deny permission for any crew to disembark from ships at the country?s four seaports until the Ebola epidemic ravaging west Africa was under control. Sailors on commercial ships can normally ask for a ?shore pass? allowing them to get off the vessel and access the port, but the documents are being withdrawn to curb the spread of the virus, said Matilda Parker, head of Liberia?s ports authority. ?For vessels coming in we have cancelled shore passes. Absolutely no one from on board vessels will be allowed down,? she told AFP. The country?s four seaports, including the Freeport of Monrovia, would adopt a ?zero tolerance? approach, Parker said, against an outbreak which has claimed 1,500 lives since the start of the year.
Liberia, the hardest-hit of five west African nations struggling with the epidemic, has seen almost 700 deaths. ?For the workers who are going onboard vessels, they are going through three layers of screening at the gate, at the security desk and also at the peer. They have been instructed not to get in contact with anybody on board,? Parker added. Parker, a US-educated private sector management specialist, was taken on in 2009 to become what remains the world?s only female port authority head, charged with turning around the fortunes of the underperforming, inefficient Freeport of Monrovia...
Ebola-hit Liberia bans sailors from disembarking.
Posted: 11:43 am, August 31, 2014 by Asian Desk
Liberia on Saturday said it would deny permission for any crew to disembark from ships at the country?s four seaports until the Ebola epidemic ravaging west Africa was under control. Sailors on commercial ships can normally ask for a ?shore pass? allowing them to get off the vessel and access the port, but the documents are being withdrawn to curb the spread of the virus, said Matilda Parker, head of Liberia?s ports authority. ?For vessels coming in we have cancelled shore passes. Absolutely no one from on board vessels will be allowed down,? she told AFP. The country?s four seaports, including the Freeport of Monrovia, would adopt a ?zero tolerance? approach, Parker said, against an outbreak which has claimed 1,500 lives since the start of the year.
Liberia, the hardest-hit of five west African nations struggling with the epidemic, has seen almost 700 deaths. ?For the workers who are going onboard vessels, they are going through three layers of screening at the gate, at the security desk and also at the peer. They have been instructed not to get in contact with anybody on board,? Parker added. Parker, a US-educated private sector management specialist, was taken on in 2009 to become what remains the world?s only female port authority head, charged with turning around the fortunes of the underperforming, inefficient Freeport of Monrovia...