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Four Japanese denied entry to Sierra Leone over virus symptoms

Reports indicate the tourists on KQ flight declined to be quarantined in Freetown and opted to be returned to Nairobi.

Four Japanese nationals aboard a Kenya Airways flight to Freetown, Sierra Leone, were barred from disembarking one exhibited symptoms similar to coronavirus. 

The four flew from Amsterdam to Nairobi for the connecting flight to Freetown and back after they were turned back by Sierra Leone authorities.

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