Op­po­si­tion whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to out­line its plan to pro­tect cit­i­zens from a pos­si­ble out­break of the Ebo­la virus, as sev­er­al coun­tries have in­tro­duced screen­ing mea­sures for trav­ellers.

Gon­za­les’ call comes as coun­tries in­clud­ing An­tigua and Bar­bu­da have im­ple­ment­ed Ebo­la screen­ing for ar­riv­ing pas­sen­gers, while Brazil re­cent­ly test­ed and cleared two peo­ple who were be­ing mon­i­tored for the virus.

Re­ports of Ebo­la, a high­ly in­fec­tious and po­ten­tial­ly lethal vi­ral dis­ease, emerged from the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Re­pub­lic of the Con­go in April. Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,000 peo­ple have died so far, and the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion has de­clared the out­break a pub­lic health emer­gency of in­ter­na­tion­al con­cern.