Update: Kenya quarantines Ebola contacts and traces flight passengers

Oct. 7, 2026 — This updates our Oct. 6 report on Ebola. Kenyan authorities are tracing everyone who came in contact with a man who died of Ebola in Nairobi, WHO's representative in Kenya, Dr. Neema Rusibamayila Kimambo, told UN News. About 10 of his relatives are in quarantine, 21 health workers who treated him have been contacted, and the government is working with the airline to reach about 23 passengers and four crew on his flight from Uganda. The man had lived in Congo; he flew in Oct. 3 and died Oct. 5.

The wall: Whether any contact has fallen ill was not reported.

Tier: Reported (based on UN News' interview with WHO's representative in Kenya)

Sources

• UN News, Kenya races to trace all contacts after first Ebola death, WHO official says (Oct. 7, 2026)

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