Japan to tighten quarantine checks to block Ebola

July 18, 2019

Tokyo--Japan's health ministry said Thursday that it will strengthen quarantine inspections after the World Health Organization declared an Ebola outbreak in Congo an international public health emergency Wednesday.

Travelers from Congo and neighboring Uganda to Japan will be required to report their body temperatures in the morning and evening for the maximum Ebola incubation period of 21 days to the quarantine stations of the airports they used to enter the Asian country, according to the ministry.

The ministry will continue to ask those traveling to Congo and elsewhere not to approach places where Ebola cases have been reported.

Ebola has killed over 1,600 people in Congo since August last year, and two people in Uganda died of the highly infectious disease last month, according to ministry and other sources. Jiji Press