Posted on 10/02/2014 5:22:41 PM PDT by markomalley
With the arrival of approximately two million people from around the world in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage, there are a group of pilgrims who were not welcomed.
The Saudi government has banned the entry of travelers from three countries currently dealing with the Ebola epidemic: Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. The decision to reject visa requests from these countries has affected 7,400 people, according to the Associated Press.
Hospitals in Saudi Arabia are also preparing in the event of an outbreak by setting up isolation and surgery units as well as dispatching medical staff to airports.
Despite banning pilgrim seekers from West Africa, Saudi officials are granting visas to pilgrims travelling from Nigeria. Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz International Airport has provided them with two exclusive lounges as a precaution.
“So far 118,000 pilgrims have arrived by air from Nigeria. There was not a single suspected case of the deadly virus among anyone of them,” said Abdul Ghani Al-Malki, supervisor of hajj affairs at the airport.
Saudi officials have also been closely monitoring incoming flights from Kenya, Congo and other countries with reported cases of Ebola. Al-Malki told the local Saudi Gazette that airport’s health inspection center ensured that planes and their passengers were not only free of Ebola, but other contagious diseases as well. “We have double-checked the papers that prove the airplanes had been sprayed twice before taking off to their destinations.”
The current death toll from Ebola in West Africa rose to 3,338, according to the World Health Organization report released Wednesday.
So even they are smarter than our Dear Leader?
That NASA thing must have worked. The Arabs are now a hell of a lot smarter than the morons living in this country.
President Obola will not ban Ebola.
Because he is more devout than Saudi’s.
Mort likely devout to Satan, his god, who comes to kill, steal and destroy. O seems to be a very good devotee to him.
And we thought they were all crazy.
Ah mecca during the hajj a Great place to deposit ebola waist.
Saudi Arabia does not allow to enter the country those Muslims going in peregrination to Mecca from countries with Ebola, while they are welcome by Obama in U.S. who apparently is more Muslim, than the Saudi Arabia King.
Even Muslums in Saudi Arabia tripping it out
It is NOW. Time between 2 Oct and 7 Oct 2014.
Good. People come there from all over the world, so this was a very smart move.
It’s awfully bad when even the Saudis are more concerned about keeping people from the infected areas out. Is there any other leader doing as little as Obama to keep out the Ebola virus.
we need to put a large black cube on the white mosque lawn
Saudi Arabia will now have to ban flights and folks from the USA!
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