Kenya: Chinese Embassy Dismisses Claim That 400 Nationals Set to Flee Kenya Over COVID-19

Nairobi ࢀ" The Chinese Embassy has denied reports that its nationals are set to leave the county en masse, over COVID-19 fears. The Embassy Spokesperson Xueqing Huang said the reports published on a local newspaper “are false, and no such plans are in place.” The local newspaper had reported that some 400 Chinese nationals had obtained a court order to enable them to leave the country on June 16, for a lack of trust in the Kenyan health system to manage the virus. “That newspaper report is fabricated. There is nothing like that,” she said, “There is no passenger flight…