Kenya bans west Africa travellers amid scramble to fight Ebola
By Americ Vincenot with Joel Olatunde Agoi in Lagos
Yahoo.com
Aug. 17, 2014
Nairobi (AFP) – Kenya has become the latest country to ban travellers from parts of Ebola-hit west Africa as Nigeria scrambled to stop the deadly disease spreading through the continent’s most populous nation.
Kenyan Health Minister James Macharia said Saturday that the country is closing its borders to travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — the nations most affected by the worst-ever Ebola outbreak.
National carrier Kenya Airways also said it would suspend its flights to Freetown and Monrovia when the ban takes effect on Wednesday.
The move comes amid an international appeal to help contain the deadly virus, which has already killed 1,145 people across west Africa this year.
In Spain, where a missionary priest died recently of Ebola after being infected in Liberia, another person was being tested for the disease and was placed in hospital isolation Saturday.
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