Kazakhstan airports start Ebola screening arriving passengers
ASTANA. Oct 16 (Interfax) - International flight passengers arriving in Kazakh airports are subject to Ebola screening, the National Economy Ministry has said.
"More than 2 million people have been screened in their crossing of the state border. Kazakhstan has not recorded any Ebola occurrences as of yet. The checkpoints have been provided with the necessary equipment," the ministry press service quoted the Ministry's Consumer Rights Committee Chairman Aliakpar Matishev as saying on Wednesday.
Teams screening international flight arrivals are deployed at Kazakh airports on 24/7 basis. All passengers coming to Kazakhstan from abroad are screened, he said.
"All a person has to do is to pass by a thermal imager. The screening is instant and unnoticed by passengers. Hospitalization is immediate when there is a slightest suspicion of the Ebola virus," he said.
Matishev added that specialists and laboratories were fully prepared to deal with Ebola.
The ministry press service reported that Kazakhstan "had been taking sanitary-epidemiological measures to prevent Ebola importation and had developed measures towards the interaction with interested government agencies, border and customs services."
There is no effective treatment or vaccine against the Ebola virus so far.