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Ebola: Kenya bars travellers from worst-hit countries

By AFP
Kenya Kenyan health officials help passengers to fill out medical forms before screening them as they arrive at the Jommo Kenyatta International Airport on August 14, 2014 in Nairobi.  By Simon Maina AFPFile
AUG 16, 2014 LISTEN
Kenyan health officials help passengers to fill out medical forms before screening them as they arrive at the Jommo Kenyatta International Airport on August 14, 2014 in Nairobi. By Simon Maina (AFP/File)

Nairobi (AFP) - Kenya is closing its borders to travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries worst hit by the Ebola epidemic, officials said Saturday.

Kenya Airways also announced that it would suspend flights to the three countries, when the government travel bar on passengers comes into effect on Tuesday.

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