Public Health England said on Friday that patients arriving from Ebola-affected countries will be checked for infection in Gatwick and St Pancras railway stations from next week.
Chief executive Duncan Selbie said, "the roll out to Birmingham and Manchester will come after the checks are introduced at Gatwick and St Pancras next week.''
Ebola screening of some passengers arriving at Heathrow from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea began last week.
Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, last week admitted that one in 10 taking indirect routes would slip through screening.
He told MPs it was likely that Ebola will be seen in the UK and a handful of cases could be confirmed in the next three months.
The announcement comes as David Cameron urged other countries to follow Britain's lead in tackling the Ebola outbreak.
He described Ebola as the biggest health problem facing our world in a generation.
Meanwhile, a Royal Navy ship carrying medical teams and aid experts left for Sierra Leone.
RFA Argus, which has a fully-equipped hospital, is expected to reach the African country by the end of October and will also be carrying 225 military personnel.
Hunt told the parliament, "This government's first priority is the safety of the British people and playing our part in halting the rise of the disease in West Africa is by far the most effective way of preventing Ebola infecting people in the UK. The chief medical officer, who takes advice from Public Health England and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, has this morning confirmed that it is likely we will see a case of Ebola in the UK, and this could be a handful of cases over the next three months. She confirms that the public health risk in the UK remains low and measures are currently in place — including exit screening in all 3 affected countries — offer the correct level of protection.''
"However, while the response to global health emergencies should always be proportionate, she also advises the government to make preparations for a possible increase in the risk level. So in the next week, Public Health England will start screening UK-bound air passengers, identified by the Border Force, coming on the main routes from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. This will allow potential cases arriving in the UK to be identified quickly and receive access to expert health advice.''
"Any passenger who reports recent exposure to people who may have Ebola, or symptoms, or who has a raised temperature will undergo a clinical assessment and, if necessary, will be transferred to hospital. Passengers identified as having any level of increased risk of Ebola, but without any symptoms, will be given a PHE contact number to call should they develop any symptoms consistent with Ebola within the 21 day incubation period. Higher risk individuals will be contacted on a daily basis by Public Health England. Should they develop symptoms, they will have the reassurance of knowing this system will get them first class medical care.''
We expect these measures to reach 89% of travellers we know have come to the UK from the affected region on tickets booked for the UK.
"But it is important to note that no screening procedure will be able to identify 100% of the people arriving from Ebola-affected countries, not least because not all passengers leaving the countries will immediately take connecting routes to the UK," he added.
The Prime Minister chaired a further COBR meeting on Ebola on Thursday. The attendees included the foreign secretary, home secretary, health secretary, transport secretary, international development secretary and armed forces minister.
The armed forces minister set out that the military deployment continued to move forward with speed.
RFA ARGUS would depart Falmouth on Thursday evening, taking 3 Merlin helicopters, and would stop in Gibraltar to collect 39 DFID vehicles. "It is expected to arrive off of Freetown at the end of the month. Today, just over 100 members of 22 Field Hospital had deployed to commence establishing an Ebola Viral Disease Treatment Unit in Kerrytown. A number of engineers on the same flight will commence development of the Ebola Training Academy, with the first course delivered by the end of October," the experts said.
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