CAF has lifted the ban on international matches in Guinea, as the country celebrated the official end of the epidemic on its soil.
Last week, Guinea celebrated the official end of the Ebola outbreak in the country. As such, it will now be able to receive international football teams on its soil.
The Confederation of African Football has just lifted the ban on continental matches in Guinea. “CAF learned with joy and relief of the announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 29, 2015 officially confirming that Guinea is now declared Ebola-free”, writes the Secretary General of the African Confederation, Hicham El Amrani, in a letter addressed to the president of the Guinean Federation.
“Enhanced monitoring” period
All competitions organized by CAF are affected by this lifting of the ban. Since August 2014, when matches were suspended in Guinea, the national Syli had been playing their home matches in Morocco – which did not prevent the team from qualifying for AFCON 2015.
The Ebola epidemic, the most serious since the identification of the virus in Central Africa in 1976, killed more than 11,300 people (2,500 in Guinea), out of some 29,000 cases recorded. Like Liberia and Sierra Leone, also free of the virus, Guinea has entered a period of “reinforced surveillance” which will extend over 90 days, in order to ensure that no case is declared, and in case of infection, to avoid any new contamination.
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Posted by whydoctor on Thursday, December 31, 2015
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