The Department of Health today updated the list of affected areas in the local reporting criteria for the Ebola virus in response to the World Health Organisation declaring the end of the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria yesterday.
The WHO will declare the end of an Ebola outbreak in a country when 42 days (double the maximum incubation period) have passed since a person had contact with an Ebola case and no additional cases have been detected.
The department said doctors should watch for patients who travelled to Nigeria on or before October 20 who develop symptoms within 21 days, as they still meet the reporting criteria.
It urged people to avoid unnecessary travel to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Equateur Province of Congo.