Govt allocates 630m FCFA against Ebola

So far spared by the epidemic which is rife in Nigeria nearby after Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone where the last balance sheet was 1.552 deaths, Cameroon has allocated an envelope of 630 million francs CFA (1, 26 million U.S. dollars) for its national plan of response against the Ebola virus announces an official statement Friday.

"We recall that, to date, no cases have been recorded in Cameroon", reaffirmed the Cameroonian public health Minister, André Mama Fouda, in a statement read to the press Friday in Yaounde, three weeks after the beginning of the Government's strategy against the dreaded disease that arouses fear for the population of Cameroon since its appearance in Nigeria.

With this country and others already affected, the Yaoundé authorities have decided to close their land, air and water borders. This measure does not reassure insofar, as the two neighbors share in common a long land border of more than 2,000 km, deemed to be porous.

Not arrange, the Ebola outbreak has also resurface for the seventh time in recent years in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), whose authorities had offered in Cameroon a batch of 100 protective kits, anticipation of a possible occurrence of the disease in this country.