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Kenya: COVID-19 – Lanet Barracks Under Total Lockdown

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As the country grapples with coronavirus pandemic, it is now emerging that Lanet Barracks on the outskirts of Nakuru Town has been put under total lockdown. This drastic move comes after one of the soldiers allegedly came into contact with a Covid-19 patient.

HEAVILY GUARDED

Moments after the news broke out at the barracks, security was stepped up and no one was allowed in or out of the heavily guarded premises.

“All Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officers have been instructed not to step out of the barracks until 14 days elapse,” said a source who requested anonymity.

Tension is high at Lanet Umoja estate after unknown number of persons were allegedly ferried in a lorry and into forced quarantine at Lanet Umoja Primary School.

The suspected coronavirus positive person is said to have visited an apartment where her sister lives with her husband, a KDF soldier at Lanet Barracks.

BUILT HOUSES

Most of the soldiers working at the barracks live in the neighbourhood where they have bought land and built houses.

On Thursday Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, in his daily briefings on the pandemic confirmed that a 20-year-old woman who had travelled from Mombasa to Nakuru was isolated at Nakuru Provincial General Hospital where she was receiving treatment.

“What we have established so far is that the infected woman was from Mombasa and had travelled to Lanet where her sister and her husband were residing,’ said the source.