A group of 17 people deported to Equatorial Guinea from the United States said Thursday that they are being detained in a hotel in Malabo alongside at least one suspected Ebola patient.
Authenticated videos show medical personnel in hazmat suits appearing to disinfect themselves outside the Bamy Hotel and on one of the floors inside.
The migrants from nations including Angola, Mauritania, and Ethiopia were sent there under the Trump administration’s opaque third-country deportation deal.
International lawyers representing them and two of the deportees said a man suspected of having the deadly virus was brought to the hotel last week and placed on a floor below them.
In an interview, the migrants said they say they were told by a doctor that they should be careful, but were provided with no further details.
