Liberian officials ordered the border with neighboring Guinea closed Tuesday amid concerns of a new outbreak of the Ebola virus. Liberia’s information minister Lenn Eugene Nangbe told Reuters the closure is a precaution to prevent the spread of the disease, and said the border “will remain closed until the situation in Guinea improves.” “We are not taking any chances at all,” Nangbe said.
Nangbe said Liberia has also sent medical personnel to crossing points along the entire Guinea border. The U.N. World Health Organization declared Guinea free of all Ebola transmission in December.
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