Uzbekistan Suspends Visits to Ebola-Hit Countries

Uzbekistan has temporarily suspended travel to and from Ebola-hit African countries, and issued an alert about visits to Western and East European nations.

The Central Asian state's anti-Ebola commission has banned anyone travelling from Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Senegal and Mali from entering the country.

It also ordered that "security measures" to be put in place to deal with passengers arriving from the United States, Canada, the UK, Spain and Germany, where there have been cases of the deadly virus, and from Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Australia and Japan where cases have been suspected.