Seven Americans quarantining at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban, says aid group

Aid workers are first known people to quarantine at facility, which sparked huge opposition in Kenya

Seven American aid workers who had been in Congo to fight the Ebola outbreak are quarantining at a new isolation facility in ⁠Kenya after the US government introduced travel ⁠restrictions, the head of a US charity ​employing them told Reuters.

The aid workers are the first known people to quarantine at the facility, which has sparked huge opposition in Kenya and is at the heart of a legal case in which a court has ordered the work to be ⁠suspended. Construction continued however, according to US officials and satellite imagery reviewed by Reuters.
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