Guyana says it is barring citizens from four African countries to fend off Ebola

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Guyana says it is barring citizens from four African countries to fend off Ebola

By Neil Marks GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - Guyana said on Thursday it has denied entry to citizens from four Ebola-hit West African nations for the past five weeks, in an effort to stop the disease from entering the small South American nation. Guyana stopped issuing visas to citizens from Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria on Sept. 9, said Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkette. In fact, the country may have little to worry about in the case of Nigeria. The worst outbreak on record of Ebola has killed nearly 4,500 people, mostly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. ...

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