Liberia: Ebola stops ship crews alighting

LIBERIA would deny permission for any crew to disembark from ships at the country’s four sea ports until the Ebola epidemic ravaging west Africa was under control, it said at the weekend. Sailors on commercial ships could normally ask for a “show pass” allowing them to get off the vessel and access the port but the documents were being withdrawn to curb the spread of the virus, Matilda Parker, the head of Liberia’s ports authority, said. “For vessels coming in we have cancelled show passes.” – Sapa-AFP