Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has confirmed 12 more Covid-19 cases in Kenya, with the number of patients now at 246. He said 450 samples had already been tested in the last couple of hours upto Friday morning when he spoke to the press, and 12 turned out positive, noting that more higher capacity testing should start, “We need to really start the testing capacity so that contacts of those people who are positive can also be tested so that we contain the pandemic.”
5 of the 12 cases are hotel workers and 4 we’re identified through contact tracing. The government has also received medical equipment from China, which has been brought in by the Kenya Airways 787 Dreamliner. The equipment include 500,000 three ply masks, 200,000 testing and sampling tubes, 4,000 shoe covers for health workers, 300 static shoes, 76,000 N95 masks.
He said the sampling and testing tubes will facilitate the mass testing exercise, “With these tubes we are now able to fast track(mass testing),” he said.