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August 6, 2019
TheMozambican Ministry of Health says it is strengthening epidemiological securitymeasures at national borders to detect suspected cases of Ebola and move aheadwith early treatment.
MaputoHealth Director, Sheila Lobo, said this on the sidelines of the graduationceremony of students of the Institute of Health Sciences in Maputo.
Lobo saidthat the ministry is setting up Ebola checkpoints on the borders with Malawiand Tanzania, at international flight airports and at national ports.
Thestrengthening of Ebola control measures follows the outbreak in the DemocraticRepublic of Congo with over one-thousand-seven-hundred deaths notification andmore than two thousand six hundred cases since 2018.