New Delhi, May 28 -- Amid the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Donald Trump's administration is preparing a quarantine facility in Congo for Americans who have been exposed to the virus, an official said on Wednesday (local time).

NBC News reported that the decision to send Americans away is a departure from previous Ebola outbreaks, which often involved flying Americans exposed to the virus back to Washington for quarantine or treatment.

Lawrence Gostin, the director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law, said the decision to quarantine Americans in Kenya is "unprecedented."

Gostin, in an email, wrote, "It is likely to cost American lives. We have an ethica...