COVID-10: Kenya reports more potent coronavirus attack rate along Indian Ocean coastline

24 Juin 2020

Nairobi, Kenya, June 24 (Infosplusgabon) – Kenyan health authorities have warned the risk of catching the deadly coronavirus was at 107% in the coastal regions along the Indian Ocean  compared to 55% in the hinterland cities such as Nairobi and Busia near the common border with Uganda.

Health ministry’s Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy Mwangangi said the infection risk in Mombasa and neighbouring counties was much higher than Nairobi, while the possibility of people tested for the virus returning positive for the virus was much higher in Kajiado, near the border with Tanzania.

“We are witnessing a rapid community transmission of the virus,” said Mwangangi on Wednesday at a regular media briefing on the status of the pandemic fight in Kenya.

The virus continues to spread across the country with at least 5,206 people infected out of the 151,396 people tested for the virus since the first case was reported on 13 March.

Kenya reported 254 new cases of the virus on Wednesday, according to the health ministry.

The virus has spread in some 40 out of 47 counties in Kenya, which is about 85% of the geographical area.

Kenya introduced home-based care for those testing positive for the virus.

Mwangangi said it was unsound for the ministry of health to continue confining patients turning positive results for the virus in the national treatment centres.

President Kenyatta has said the issue of sending patients for home-based care required further consideration because the local community required to be protected from the spread.

He said the health authorities were still exploring the best means of ensuring  communities where people testing positive for the virus were protected from contracting the virus.

Health ministry Director-General Patrick Amoth said community deaths from the virus were being recorded with two people being found dead in Mombasa on Wednesday from the virus.

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