Americans quarantine at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban
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.
A US State Department official told Reuters that a group of asymptomatic Americans who had served on the front lines of the Ebola response had “voluntarily moved to the Kenya facility for precautionary monitoring and isolation.” “Kenyan authorities have authorised their movement into the facility under the observation of the US Public Health Service clinicians,” the official said, adding that the decision was taken “strictly out of an abundance of caution.
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