In a public announcement released on June 29, 2026, Haiti’s Minister of Public Health Bertrand Sinal outlined a series of strict preventive measures designed to stop the potential introduction of Ebola cases into the Caribbean nation, as an ongoing outbreak in Central Africa has already claimed hundreds of lives. The current outbreak, centered in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and neighboring Uganda, has recorded more than 1,100 confirmed cases and over 300 deaths to date, prompting public health officials across the globe to strengthen screening protocols for travelers from affected regions. Under Haiti’s new rules, any traveler originating from either DRC or Uganda must complete a 21-day quarantine period in a third country that has not recorded any Ebola cases before being allowed to enter Haitian territory. All travelers subject to this protocol are also required to pass a full comprehensive health screening prior to their arrival in the country. Public health authorities are also maintaining heightened close surveillance on 10 additional nations that share borders with the two outbreak epicenters: South Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Congo-Brazzaville, Burundi, Angola, the Central African Republic, and Zambia. Sinal emphasized that the strict measures are a necessary precaution given the well-documented vulnerabilities of Haiti’s existing public health infrastructure. The country’s healthcare system currently lacks both the sufficient logistical resources and broad territorial control required to manage a nationwide quarantine or operate large-scale isolation facilities if an Ebola outbreak were to take root. Right now, Haiti’s limited healthcare infrastructure is already operating at maximum capacity to respond to the ongoing severe humanitarian and hospital crisis unfolding in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, leaving no spare capacity to handle a new infectious disease threat. The Ministry of Public Health has formally notified Haiti’s Ministry of the Interior and the National Airport Authority (AAN) of the new policy, and trained personnel from relevant agencies have already been mobilized to enforce the protocols at all of the country’s official entry points, including airports, seaports, and land border crossings. International and humanitarian organizations that maintain operations in Haiti have already aligned their own internal protocols with the new national rules, requiring all of their deployed staff to complete 21-day preventive isolation and mandatory screening before deploying to Haitian territory.