Kenya will evacuate its students trapped in Wuhan, the Chinese epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said.

However, President Kenyatta said Nairobi was putting in place stringent measures to ensure the virus does not enter Kenya.

QUARANTINED

“We are also working; because we have got a good number of our students there, to see how we can support them and find out how we can also, when they do come and insist they are coming, ensure that they are put in quarantine for the required 14 days and ensure that they are not going to spread that virus around,” President Kenyatta told a forum at the Atlantic Council, an American think-tank on foreign policy, business and politics in Washington.

At least 200 Kenyan students are based in Wuhan, the capital of Hebei Province in China.

The students had earlier complained of being neglected by authorities in Nairobi as the virus spreads.