UK EBOLA CHECKS WILL BE DONE OVER PHONE

VISITORS to the UK from highrisk Ebola hotspots will be diagnosed by phone.

The new strategy means arrivals from African countries hit by the deadly disease will now refer themselves for testing.

People from Sierra Leone and Guinea, both classed as countries suffering “intense transmission”, will be given a checklist of Ebola symptoms.

Visitors will be asked if they have a ANGRY French farmers hijacked a convoy of British lorries and set fire to their £200,000 load of fish – which had been caught by French fisherman for the French market.

The militant farmers are protesting over cheap imports they claim are driving down the price of their own produce. But they blundered when they herded seven trucks from Scotland into a makeshift roadblock in Brittany.

They ordered the drivers out and used forklifts to tip 140 tonnes of fish on to the road and set fire to the cargo. Gordon Ramsay, 40, from Invergordon, said: “We tried to tell them it was French fish, from a French boat, for a French market, but all seven loads got emptied on to the road.” headache or fever, or been handling bats or primates.

Screening has been taking place at airports across the UK since the height of the epidemic last autumn.

Medics have been taking a visitor’s temperature and evaluating a health questionnaire. Nearly 10,000 passengers have been screened in Britain since last October with 257 people tested for Ebola.

Birmingham and Manchester airports and the St Pancras Eurostar terminal in London will relax screening measures. Visitors will self-refer and an assessment will be carried out by phone if necessary.

Medical teams will still be in place at Gatwick and Heathrow.

Professor Paul Cosford of Public Health England said: “The risk of Ebola transmission to the UK from West Africa is now significantly lower than when the screening arrangements were originally implemented.”

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