India, Oct. 23 -- Amid an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the US is set to make it mandatory for air passengers entering the country to furnish an attestation saying they have not been to the DRC in the last 21 days.

Reuters reported it first citing a memo from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that they accessed. The report says that the new CDC rule will take effect starting November 3.

Once it takes effect, travelers to US will have to furnish an attestation, either paper or digital, saying that they were not in the DRC in the last 21 days. The CDC has started holding briefings with the airlines on how to comply with the restriction, the report added.

However, as of now, the CDC has not o...