MOSCOW, October 17 (RIA Novosti) - The Texas Department of State Health Service issued instructions for any person who attended to the first US Ebola patient, who died last week, not to travel in public transport or visit a number of listed public places for the three week incubation period.
"No individual who entered the first Ebola patient's room can travel by commercial transportation until 21 days after the individual's last exposure," the instruction issued late on Thursday stated, adding that this included taxis, buses and public places as grocery stores, restaurants and theaters.
The health care workers had to sign the agreement and their temperature is to be checked twice daily during the 21 days, according to the instructions.
The instructions are to be adhered to by the more than 70 health workers who attended to the late Thomas Eric Duncan, who died on October 8, at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, USA Today said in a report.
Prior to this, two nurses, Amber Vinson, 29 and Nina Pham, 26 were confirmed to have contracted the virus while the other health workers were requested to self-monitor.
Meanwhile, President Obama on Thursday signed an executive order that provides him the immediate authority to order US National Guard and Reserve forces to Liberia to help combat the spreading virus, according to NBC News.
Currently, there are over 500 US Soldiers in Liberia, after 100 more were deployed on Tuesday. The US troops are handling blood samples and building Ebola centers in coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO).
According to the latest WHO data, the virus has so far caused 4,546 deaths out of 9,191 known cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
