Aid group says seven Americans quarantining at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban
GENEVA/NAIROBI: Seven American aid workers who had been in Congo to fight the Ebola outbreak are quarantining at an isolation facility in Kenya after the US government introduced new travel restrictions, the head of a US charity employing them told Reuters.
The aid workers are the first people to quarantine at the facility, which has sparked huge opposition in Kenya and is at the heart of an ongoing court case, with a judge ordering activity at the site to be suspended until a final ruling is issued.
But work on the facility has continued, according to US officials and satellite imagery reviewed by Reuters.
Washington’s new policy says American citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is an Ebola outbreak, must spend three weeks in a third country before entering the United States.
