FREETOWN: A Cuban doctor infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone was being flown to Geneva for treatment as the UN warned yesterday against open defecations amid fears they were helping spread the virus ravaging west Africa.
As efforts to fight the outbreak in the three worst-hit countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea intensify after a lacklustre start, Cuba has played a major role sending around 250 doctors and nurses to the region.
Havana has said it plans to send a total of 450.
Felix Baez Sarria, one of about 165 Cuban medics in Sierra Leone, started to feel feverish on Sunday.
The 43-year-old is currently in a Red Cross centre near the capital Freetown, his boss, Doctor Jorge Delgado Butillo, said.
Elizabeth II said, according to David Heymann, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Majority of Swiss oppose strict immigration limits
ZURICH: Most Swiss voters oppose proposals to place strict limits on immigration but support is rising before this month’s national vote on the issue, a closely-watched survey showed yesterday.
The initiative, launched by environmentalist group Ecopop and opposed by the government, seeks to cap the number of new immigrants at just 0.2 percent of the resident population, equivalent to about 16,000 people per year. It would also earmark 10 percent of Switzerland’s overseas development aid budget for family planning.
Fifty-six percent of Swiss voters plan to oppose the initiative on Nov. 30, according to Berne-based research institute gfs.bern, down 2 percentage points from its October 24 poll.
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