EBOLA BLOG: Gutter bowling alley that Ebola patient visited closes

Up-to-date information on the Ebola situation in New York and worldwide after an emergency room doctor who, after treating Ebola patients in West Africa, tested positive for the virus. Dr. Craig Spencer is being treated at Bellevue hospital.

5:18 p.m. -- Cuomo, Christie release details of new state standards

Governor Andrew Cuomo and Governor Chris Christie announced additional screening protocols for Ebola at both JFK and Newark Liberty International Airports:

--There will be real-time access to on-the-ground screening at JFK and Newark Liberty International Airports by New York and New Jersey Departments of Health staff

--Each State Department of Health at JFK and Newark Liberty International Airports will, as permitted under applicable law, make its own determination as to hospitalization, quarantine, and other public health interventions for up to 21 days. There will also be a mandatory quarantine for any individual who had direct contact with an individual infected with the Ebola virus while in one of the three West African nations (Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea), including any medical personnel having performed medical services to individuals infected with the Ebola virus. Additionally, all individuals with travel history to the affected regions of West Africa, with no direct contact with an infected person, will be actively monitored by public health officials and, if necessary, quarantined, depending on the facts and circumstances of their particular situation.

--New York and New Jersey are establishing enhanced communication protocols between their respective state health departments to coordinate on matters pertaining to New York and New Jersey resident travelers who fly into Newark and JFK

--The Centers of Disease Control (CDC) and Customs Border Patrol (CBP) will provide information to New York and New Jersey's respective State Departments of Health on all screening on a real-time basis and provide a daily recap as to the status of that day's screening and CDC determinations

4:40 p.m. -- Cuomo, Christie announce mandatory quarantine for high-risk passengers coming through area airports

In a major new state policy for New York and New Jersey, governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie announced a mandatory quarantine for people returning to US through area airports who are deemed "high risk." In the first application of the new set of standards, the states are quarantining a female healthcare worker returning from Africa who took care of Ebola patients. She is not sick, but the governors made the decision to quarantine anyway. It is a unilateral decision by the states.

4:36 p.m. -- Cuomo, Christie announce increase in screening

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EBOLA BLOG: Gutter bowling alley that Ebola patient visited closes