{"id":35598,"date":"2026-05-27T12:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35598"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:37:49","slug":"canada-bahamas-impose-ebola-related-travel-bans","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/canada-bahamas-impose-ebola-related-travel-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, Bahamas impose Ebola-related travel bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Canada and the Bahamas said on Tuesday they will \u200btemporarily ban residents from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda \u200cand South Sudan amid an Ebola outbreak.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Residents from those countries will be banned from entering Canada for 90 days starting Wednesday, the Canadian government said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It said \u200bthe temporary border measure aimed to reduce the risk of \u200bEbola entering and spreading within Canada.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Bahamian government added that \u2060its entry restrictions would take immediate effect and remain in place \u200bfor a period of 30 days, subject to review by the Caribbean \u200bcountry&#8217;s Health Ministry.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>Reuters<\/i>\u00a0first reported that the archipelago would impose such a travel ban.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The World Health Organisation on Friday raised to &#8220;very high&#8221; the risk of the Bundibugyo strain \u200bof Ebola turning into a national outbreak in the DRC and has declared the outbreak there and in Uganda an emergency of \u200cinternational \u2060concern.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last week, Washington banned non-citizens who had travelled to the DRC, Uganda or South Sudan in recent weeks from entering the United States.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Canadian citizens, permanent residents and other foreign nationals who have been in affected \u200bareas in recent \u200bweeks and do \u2060not have symptoms will have to quarantine for 21 days from May 30, according to a statement from \u200bCanada&#8217;s public health agency.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Bahamas also announced enhanced \u200bhealth screenings \u2060and possible quarantines for foreigners who were present in the Democratic Republic of the DRC, Uganda or South Sudan within 30 days of arriving \u2060in the \u200bCaribbean country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>No cases of Ebola have been \u200breported in the US, Canada or the Bahamas.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32809,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-35598","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Canada and the Bahamas will \u200btemporarily ban residents from DRC","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35599,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35598\/revisions\/35599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}