{"id":248702,"date":"2026-10-31T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-kenyas-health-minister-did-not-announce-an-impending-ebola-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T05:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:00:18","slug":"kenya-no-kenyas-health-minister-did-not-announce-an-impending-ebola-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-kenyas-health-minister-did-not-announce-an-impending-ebola-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: No, Kenya&#8217;s Health Minister Did Not Announce an Impending Ebola Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>No, Kenya&#8217;s health minister did not announce an impending Ebola lockdown<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> Social media posts falsely claim that minister Aden Duale announced an impending nationwide Ebola lockdown. But the Kenyan government has consistently ruled out such restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/837223353420744\/permalink\/2566218733854522\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">graphic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/61561524411518\/posts\/122208625118384147\/?mibextid=wwXIfr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">circulating<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/609922268623740\/permalink\/1123745280574767\/?mibextid=wwXIfr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social<\/a> media in October 2026 shows Kenya&#8217;s health cabinet secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HonAdenDuale?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aden Duale<\/a> alongside a quote that reads: &#8220;There will be a total Ebola lockdown soon in Kenya.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610300540.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Kenya&#8217;s health minister did not announce an impending Ebola lockdown IN SHORT: Social media posts falsely claim that minister Aden Duale announced an impending nationwide Ebola lockdown. But the Kenyan government has consistently ruled out such restrictions. A graphic circulating on social media in October 2026 shows Kenya&#8217;s health cabinet secretary Aden Duale alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":248703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,15876,1111,5731,17185,4688,430,6097,33220,5941,257,254],"class_list":["post-248702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-announce","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-impending","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-lockdown","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}