Eight more people have tested positive for the coronavirus, raising Kenya’s tally of cases to 363.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe told a press conference on Monday that the new cases were reported in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kwale counties.
The eight (four in Mombasa, three in Nairobi and one in Kwale) are aged between 13 and 65 years and had no foreign travel history.”All of them are Kenyans. Before it used to be people who had travelled elsewhere,” Kagwe said, pointing to the growing worry of community transmissions.
Five of the new infections were picked the Ministry of Health surveillance teams while the other three are from mandatory quarantine facilities.
“The Nairobi cases are from Kibra and the quarantine facility at Kenyatta University. The Kwale case is from Tanga at Lunga Lunga border with the four at Mombasa are from Mvita,” Kagwe said in a statement released after the press briefing.
The health minister added that eight more people have been discharged from isolation facilities to take the number of total recoveries to 114.
So far, the contagious virus, first reported in Kenya on March 13, has claimed 14 lives.
Easing lockdown
Kagwe said his ministry was trying to see roles it could play in limiting the economic disruption occasioned by the virus outbreak.”In addition to everything else that we are doing, we are playing our role as a ministry to see what measures we can take and assist the economy to continue going on in spite of everything,” he said.
This, however, he held will be on their own terms even as they learn from the experiences of other countries.”Countries are opening up much earlier than we think we should, others have delayed but we want to make our own measures based on our own experiences and what we have seen as a people,” Kagwe noted.
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