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Border counties call for heightened surveillance in fight against Ebola

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Trucks at Kocholia area along the Malaba-Eldoret highway on February 11, 2022. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Residents of Busia County want surveillance intensified along the porous border in the fight against Ebola disease.

A section of the residents claimed that people were using panya (illegal) routes at Lwakhakha, Sofia and Swam in Kitale to cross into Kenya from Uganda without being screened.

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