Seven American aid workers who had been in the Democratic Republic of 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 the US charity employing them, Samaritan’s Purse, told Reuters that none of the workers have any symptoms, but they are being quarantined by the Kenyan government for 21 days.
The US government’s new policy requires American citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is an Ebola outbreak, to spend three weeks in a third country before entering the United States.
The bio-isolation unit built by the US government on an air force base in central Kenya for Americans exposed to the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo or Uganda has been met with controversy, with many Kenyans accusing the US of offloading the health risk of caring for patients.
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