A court in Kenya on Fri­day sus­pend­ed a U.S. plan to es­tab­lish a quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ty for Amer­i­cans ex­posed to a rare type of Ebo­la virus spread­ing in north­east­ern Con­go, fol­low­ing a back­lash by med­ical work­ers and ac­tivists.

U.S. ad­min­is­tra­tion of­fi­cials said on Thurs­day that the U.S. was plan­ning to send Amer­i­cans who are ex­posed to Ebo­la while abroad to a new fa­cil­i­ty in Kenya in­stead of fly­ing them home. The of­fi­cials spoke on con­di­tion of anonymi­ty to share the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s plans. They said the fa­cil­i­ty would be at Laikip­ia Air Base and would be op­er­a­tional with 50 quar­an­tine beds by Fri­day.

The Kenyan gov­ern­ment said it was in dis­cus­sions with the U.S. on sup­port for Ebo­la pre­pared­ness but de­clined to ad­dress whether the coun­try would es­tab­lish a treat­ment fa­cil­i­ty for Amer­i­cans. The U.S. gov­ern­ment in­tends to com­mit $13.5 mil­lion to­ward Kenya’s Ebo­la pre­pared­ness ef­forts, Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio said in a state­ment.