The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife has barred its students who are from Liberia and other West African countries hit by the Ebola virus from returning to the university.
The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Bamitale Omole, said this at a press conference he addressed in Ife on Thursday.
The VC also announced that the results of the tests carried out on the blood sample of the female student of the university suspected to have had secondary contact with a Port Harcourt doctor who died of the EVD, Dr. Iyke Enemuo were negative.
Asked what the university was doing to prevent the virus from being spread by foreign students especially those from Liberia and the countries where the virus had assumed epidemic proportion, Omole said the university had stopped them from resuming.
He said, "We have asked some foreign student not to resume. Students from Liberia have been asked not to resume and they have not resumed."
To ensure that the virus was not allowed to spread into the university, the vice chancellor said the management had bought infrared thermometers to measure temperature of students and staff.
He added that the university had also established Ebola Virus Disease Surveillance and Monitoring Committee where suspected cases of the EVD were expected to be reported.
According to him, the varsity is also collaborating with the national committee on the EVD.
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