Ebola: US ban on travellers from DRC, Uganda or South Sudan ‘not the solution’

Red Cross workers gather to disinfect Rwampara general hospital before handling the body of a person who died of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, in Rwampara outside Bunia, Ituri province. Photograph: Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/Reuters

A US travel ban for people coming from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in response to the Ebola outbreak could make the situation worse, critics have said.

The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday and continues to spread, with a new case reported in the DRC’s South Kivu province, an area under the control of armed rebel groups.