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Zambia announced that it was denying entry to citizens from countries hit by the virus, while Chad suspended all flights from Nigeria. Nigeria along with Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are the hardest hit countries by the epidemic, which the WHO has called the worst in four decades.

Authorities in Lagos, the largest city in Africa’s most populous country, said they needed volunteers because of a shortage of medical personnel.

“I won’t lie about that,” Lagos state health commissioner Jide Idris said on television, as the city, home to 20 million people confirmed nine cases of Ebola, including two deaths.

In Guinea, the government had announced that it was temporarily closing its land borders with neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone but later went back on its statement arguing that it wanted to avoid clandestine border crossings.

“We’re not talking about closing the borders between Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, but rather of coercive measures to better control cross-border movements, notably by people who risk carrying the virus,” said government spokesman Albert Damantang Camara.

India is also taking action. Airports in the Asian country of 1.25 billion people went on alert and the government opened an emergency helpline on Saturday.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan warned against spreading false information about Ebola which can lead to mass hysteria, panic and misdirection, including unverified suggestions about prevention, treatment, cure and spread of the virus.

Mauritania meanwhile stepped up health checks at its border with Senegal and Mali, a Mauritanian health ministry official said, but so far no suspicious cases had been detected.

Spread by close contact with an infected person through bodily fluids such as sweat, blood and tissue, Ebola causes fever and, in the worst cases, unstoppable bleeding.

The scientists who discovered the virus in 1976 have called for an experimental drug being used on two infected Americans to be made available to Africans.