A court in Kenya again halted the construction of a field hospital there to quarantine Americans that have been exposed to Ebola during the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Uganda. The proposed construction has been the subject of protests over worries that it could introduce the deadly virus to a country which has reported zero cases. Photo by Daniel Irungu/EPA
June 23 (UPI) -- Kenyan Health Minister Aden Duale halted construction on a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine facility after a judge found him in contempt of court for defying an earlier ruling.
Kenyan High Court Judge Patricia Nyaundi on May 29, two days after the U.S. government announced it was creating a field hospital in Kenya to quarantine Americans who were exposed to Ebola, blocked construction after protests against it sprung up.
U.S. Secretary of State said early in the still-growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and South Suden that no Ebola cases or potential cases would be permitted to enter the United States.
Health experts and rights groups in Kenya had raised concerns, amid protests, that creating a quarantine facility in Kenya, which has not had Ebola cases during the outbreak, could pose a potential danger to Kenyans, The BBC reported
