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Kenya Ebola rules gazetted on Monday, 12 October, give legal force to airport screening, quarantine and reporting duties after the country's first case. The post Kenya Ebola Rules Take Legal Force From 12 October appeared first on The Rio Times.
Tests have come back negative for a person suspected of having Ebola who was reportedly in quarantine at a hospital, following rumours circulating over the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, in Nairobi, authorities are racing to trace contacts of Kenya's first Ebola death, reported on Monday. Our correspondent Bastien Renouil tells us more.
This follows the death in Nairobi on Monday of a Kenyan man who had travelled home from DR Congo through Uganda.
There had been fears the patient could be Kenya’s second case after a citizen died of the virus in Nairobi on Tuesday.
A Kenyan national who had been living in Congo before returning to Nairobi has become Kenya’s first confirmed Ebola case and the country’s first fatality from the disease in the rapidly evolving outbreak. The Kenya Red Cross is supporting the government’s efforts to prevent a public health crisis. FRANCE 24’s Bastien Renouil met with Paul Olala, the NGO’s head of health security and emergencies.
Preliminary lab results ease fears of a second case in Kenya, after the country reported its first-ever case this week.
Kenya’s Health Ministry has heightened surveillance at border entry points and created an Ebola hotline for citizens to report symptoms related to Ebola
The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union on Tuesday called on the government to protect health workers, after the country reported its first case of Ebola.
Health authorities in Kenya confirmed an Ebola infection in a traveler who recently arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The person fell ill in Congo a month ago and traveled by road to Uganda. The patient arrived by plane in Nairobi on Oct. 3 and died Monday. This marks Kenya's first imported case linked to the outbreak in central Africa. Bloomberg's Janice Kew reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
In tonight's edition, Kenya records its first Ebola death after a man travelled from the DRC via Uganda. Also, Comoros is tightening the rules on who can do business. In South Africa, concerns are growing that xenophobia and hostility toward foreign nationals could be driving African tourists away.
Kenya on Tuesday reported its first-ever Ebola death after a Kenyan national who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) died after returning to the country. Kenya is the fourth country to record an Ebola case in the current outbreak, which was declared in eastern DR Congo in mid-May.
Kenya has reported its first-ever Ebola death, the health minister announced on Tuesday, after a Kenyan man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo died after returning to the country. The man, who was not named, fell ill about a month ago and had been treated in the DR Congo, Health Minister Aden Duale told reporters, before travelling overland to the Ugandan capital, Kampala, and then flying to Nairobi on October 3. He added that he was screened and confirmed positive for the...