ODM staff tests positive for Covid-19

A staffer at the ODM secretariat has tested positive for Covid-19.

Mr Ben Musungu, who is the director of youth affairs, is admitted at the intensive care unit of the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, ODM Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna said Tuesday.

Mr Sifuna said Mr Musungu is receiving the best possible medication and that he is responding well to treatment.

“We would like to urge anyone who interacted with Mr Musungu at least 14 days before June 3 to volunteer for testing to avoid further spread of the disease,” Mr Sifuna said at a press conference at the party headquarters in Nairobi.

Mr Musungu contested for the Kibra by-election after the death of Ken Okoth in July last year. He lost in the ODM primaries to Imran Okoth.

According to Mr Sifuna, Mr Musungu developed fever and severe body pains last week. He sought medical attention at the Aga Khan University Hospital ’s satellite clinic at Prestige Plaza on Ngong Road.

He was referred to the main hospital in Parklands where he was first diagnosed with pneumonia.

He developed more complications and when further tests were conducted he was diagnosed with Covid-19.

Mr Sifuna said there is little chance that another staff member at the secretariat is infected.

“We have out of abundance of caution arranged for enhanced measures including fumigation of the entire office,” he said.