{"id":39566,"date":"2026-07-14T11:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39566"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:29:30","slug":"us-to-block-citizens-in-drc-from-immediate-travel-home-citing-ebola","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-to-block-citizens-in-drc-from-immediate-travel-home-citing-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"US to block citizens in DRC from immediate travel home, citing Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The United States (US) Donald Trump administration on Monday said it is blocking American citizens in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from traveling to \u200bthe US on commercial flights, according to a White House official.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The \u200corder, which is being taken under a transportation authority known as Title 49, will place US citizens in DRC or those who have recently left on a \u201cdo-not-board\u201d list \u200buntil they have spent at least 21 days in a third \u200bcountry, the person said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The new restrictions come amid a widening Ebola \u2060outbreak, which has spread to a number of provinces within DRC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The \u200bnumber of confirmed Ebola cases across the country had risen to 1 926, including \u200b702 deaths, official data showed late on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The often-fatal viral disease spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids from infected people or animals and causes symptoms that can \u200binclude high fever, vomiting and internal and external bleeding.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Some two dozen Americans \u200bwere set to board flights to the US on Tuesday after having traveled to DRC, \u200caccording \u2060to the US official, who said the State Department would support them and others affected during the waiting period.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Earlier on Monday, US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed an order citing increased Ebola \u200brisks, including the \u200bspread of the \u2060virus to just hours outside of Congo\u2019s capital, Kinshasa.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37775,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-39566","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ebola \u2060outbreak","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39567,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39566\/revisions\/39567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}