A judge in the US state of Maine has issued a temporary order forcing a quarantine on a nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.
Kaci Hickox defied a previous order by state officials to stay at home for 21 days and took a bicycle ride yesterday.
The 21 day period refers to the maximum it can take for Ebola to develop following contact with the virus.
The order from Charles LaVerdiere, chief judge of the Maine District Court, instructs the nurse to submit to "directactive monitoring," and "not to be present in public places" like shopping centres, cinemas or workplaces except to receive necessary healthcare.
The temporary order permits her to engage in what the judge called "non-congregate public activities" like walking or jogging in the park but instructs her to maintain a one metre distance from other people.
The quarantine confrontation between Ms Hickox and Maine has become the focal point of a struggle between several US states opting for stringent measures to guard against Ebola and a federal government wary of discouraging potential medical volunteers to fight the Ebola outbreak in west Africa.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power has defended federal guidelines for monitoring health workers returning from three Ebola-stricken west African countries and praised the airlines still flying there.
"Let me commend Air Brussels, Air France and Moroccan Airways for keeping their flights going. Those flights are a lifeline," Ms Powers said at a Reuters Newsmaker event in New York hours after returning from a four-day trip to Ebola-hit Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
She said she was considered at low risk for contracting the virus because she did not enter an Ebola treatment unit in any of the three countries and had her temperature checked three times before boarding a plane home from Liberia and was checked again upon arriving at New York's JFK Airport.
She said she believed current federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers balanced "the need to respond to the fears that this has generated" in the US with the known science on the disease.
"We believe that when a health worker makes physical contact with a medical professional here that they can look you over, ask the questions as only healthcare practitioners know how to do, that that kind of contact combined with the temperature checks and check-ins over a 21-day period is sufficient, and that is a regimen developed on the basis of the science and on the basis of wanting to be responsive," she said, adding that health officials are capable of self monitoring.
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