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 ar…

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. Washington’s new policy says American citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where there is an Ebola outbreak, must spend three weeks in a third country before entering the United States. The US government is building ⁠the 50-bed bio-isolation unit on an air force base in central Kenya for asymptomatic Americans exposed to the virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo or Uganda. Many Kenyans are angered at what ​they see as the US offloading the health risk such patients pose. Last month, Kenya’s ‌health minister announced an immediate halt to the facility’s ‌construction after he was found in contempt of court for failing to observe the order to halt work pending a final ruling. “Samaritan’s Purse has seven American Disaster Assistance Response Team staff ‌members there,” Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, told Reuters in response to questions. “None of them have any symptoms, but they are being quarantined by the Kenyan government for 21 days,” Graham said.