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Court orders hunt for 239 Chinese travellers and suspends flights

Passengers disembark from Chinese Southern Airline plane at JKIA in 2015. [File, Standard]

The High Court has ordered the government to immediately hunt and confine the 239 Chinese who jetted into the country on Wednesday, causing fears of spreading the deadly coronavirus.

Justice James Makau directed Interior CS Fred Matiang’i, Health CS Sicily Kariuki, Transport CS James Macharia and Foreign Affairs CS Raychelle Omamo to trace, re-examine, confine and quarantine them in a Kenya Defence Force (KDF) facility to save Kenyans from an imminent health risk.

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