France starts this Saturday health checks against Ebola passengers arriving at Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) flights on Air France direct from Guinea, one of the African countries affected by the outbreak of Ebola , as announced Thursday French Health Minister Marisol Touraine. UK began to implement control two days ago travelers from West Africa at London Heathrow Airport. Paris has taken this decision alone, as the EU has not reached an agreement on the possibility of temperature controls for passengers coming from African countries affected by the epidemic of Ebola.
As detailed on Radio Classique, medical personnel will take the temperature of passengers on the catwalk down the plane and, therefore, "before entering the airport." Touraine said it will also strengthen controls on departure of flights from the French capital, and added that the Government's responsibility lies both in strengthening the team faced in Africa Ebola virus, as in "to protect the territory French ".
The announcement of the controls was advanced Wednesday by French President François Hollande, after a conversation with their counterparts in the US, Germany, UK and Italy, in which Paris also said it will build new treatment centers against disease in Guinea Conakry.
France to debate this Thursday remained well forward on the controls at airports health ministers of the European Union. At the extraordinary meeting in Brussels has decided to "review and strengthen controls output of the affected countries (ie, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry)," as reported by the Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato
Mato added that the goal is to fill in forms that allow the passengers to "make a territorial monitoring" to facilitate locate such persons within 21 days of arrival at the Community territory, the term could be incubating the disease.
For the Spanish minister, most importantly Twenty-eight have agreed to "exchange information between different countries," so that if a traveler arrives at an airport in the EU, its data will be collected and shared with other Member States .
"I think it's great that we all can coordinate to exchange information," said the minister, who considered it important to know where countries are going to be every traveler arriving on a flight from the countries concerned and you can be reached.
The meeting was attended by the Health Minister Ana Mato, to inform their colleagues about the situation in Spain after the spread of Ebola in the auxiliary nurse Teresa Romero, who attended hospital Carlos III of Madrid to the Spanish missionaries sick virus were repatriated from Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Each Member State is free to strengthen health checks at airports. In fact, the UK has already announced following the US example. Czech Republic also has advanced control from next Tuesday to all passengers landing in Prague to detect possible cases of Ebola, local media reported.
Travelers must fill in a questionnaire on the plane for easy control of health at the airport, announced last night the Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka. Temperature to those who have been most affected African countries and maintain "a specialized physician, according to the Czech Government conversation. The Vaclav Havel Prague airport has no direct connection with any of these most affected countries will be taken.
Since last August, the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO) have already introduced controls output to passengers in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. According to Brussels, this is "appropriate measure" to prevent symptomatic persons traveling and thus halt the spread of Ebola.
Input controls at airports in the EU "does not replace the output, but would give an extra level of assurance." His "biggest advantage", according to the Commission, would be able to provide personalized information to the passengers on what to do and what not to do if you have symptoms following their arrival in Europe days as the incubation period of Ebola is 21 days. This would be to ensure that people exposed to contact with the health authorities to the presence of high fever and do not address on their own or other emergency health services not endanger other citizens.