Coronavirus: Kenya to deploy mobile labs at borders as pandemic cases hit 737

13 Mai 2020

Nairobi, Kenya, May 13  (Infosplusgabon) - Twenty-two more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Kenya on Wednesday as the number of cases rose to 737.

A Health Chief Administration Secretary, Dr Rashid Aman, said the number of deaths occasioned by the pandemic rose by four, raising the total to 40.

There are also 281 recovered cases, the authorities said.

“Twenty-one are Kenyans and one is a Ugandan. The country has so far tested 35,432 samples,” he said on Wednesday, during the daily Coronavirus briefing

The bulk of the pandemic cases detected so far are in the Kenyan capital Nairobi and the port city of Mombasa.

The health authorities also said there is spike in the number of cases in the Kenya-Tanzania border town of Namanga, in Kajiado County.

Dr Aman said a Mobile Testing Laboratory will be set up at the Namanga border to help curb cross-border infections.

He said clinics will be used to monitor the pandemic at the border, to curb cross-border infections.

The mobile clinics will be dispatched from the East African Community (EAC) headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.

The EAC is a regional economic block that brings together six countries, including Kenya, which is dispatching two mobile laboratories to Kenya.

Other EAC members are Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan and Rwanda.

On Tuesday, 25 people, including truck drivers from Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda, were turned away at the border after testing positive for the virus.

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