{"id":25237,"date":"2021-04-02T19:42:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=25237"},"modified":"2021-04-02T19:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T19:42:14","slug":"uk-hits-kenya-with-new-travel-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/uk-hits-kenya-with-new-travel-restrictions","title":{"rendered":"UK Hits Kenya With New Travel Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> The British High Commission in Kenya on Friday, April 2, announced that Kenya would be introduced in its red list &#8211; banning Kenyan citizens from\u00a0entering the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made after\u00a0Kenya was categorised\u00a0as a high-risk country in the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>From April 9, British and Irish citizens\u00a0who have been in or transited through Kenya in the previous 10 days would be\u00a0declined entry into England\u00a0unless they\u00a0undertake a compulsory ten-day quarantine. The same courtesy will be extended to Kenyans who already have residence rights in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Irish and third-country nationals with residence rights arriving from these countries will be required to quarantine in a Government-approved facility for 10 days,&#8221; the High Commission explained.<\/p>\n<article data-align=\"center\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/files\/styles\/article_inner_mobile\/public\/images\/media\/An%20immigration%20official%20serves%20travellers%20at%20the%20JKIA%20in%20Nairobi..jpg?itok=bu5ew-Ln\" alt=\"A photo of an immigration official serves travellers at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi.\" width=\"470\" height=\"235\" \/><\/div>\n<div>An immigration official serves travellers at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>Kenya will join Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Africa, among other countries also listed in the\u00a0red list travel banned countries.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyans have strongly reacted to the new travel restrictions touching on travelers entering the United Kingdom from Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UK should deal with it&#8217;s incompetent handling of Covid virus. If we (Kenya) had real leaders here, we should have stopped travel from the UK along time ago. UK is the hotbed of the virus with it&#8217;s own homegrown variant,&#8221; one Kenyan stated.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyans blamed President Uhuru Kenyatta for not locking down the country, saying\u00a0British militia were responsible for bring the virus\u00a0into the country.<\/p>\n<p>They also questioned the fact that\u00a0travelers from the UK were exempted from quarantine\u00a0with the only requirement being a negative Covid-19 test be taken within 96 hours of travel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is crazy how busy we have gotten over the past months. We are full most weekends. A lot of Europeans and Brits are coming down to stay for long periods,&#8221; the hotel&#8217;s manager was quoted by British magazine The Independent.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the British High Commission in Nairobi had been quoted saying Kenya was likely to be added to the red list by March 29, 2021,\u00a0due to slackness in closing the Tanzanian border.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-ad article-ad-3\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1507752217570-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cFor weeks, red list rumors have been circulating Nairobi; a refusal to close borders with neighboring Tanzania, which has not published coronavirus statistics since May 2020, was touted as a key factor,\u201d read a publication by the Telegraph newspaper in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The move will see travelers quarantine for ten days in Ksh226,971 government-sanctioned hotels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: The British High Commission in Kenya on Friday, April 2, announced that Kenya would be introduced in its red list &#8211; banning Kenyan citizens from\u00a0entering the United Kingdom. The decision was made after\u00a0Kenya was categorised\u00a0as a high-risk country in the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. 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