Kenya’s strategy that produced the highest Covid-19 recoveries at 570

Kenya has recorded the highest Covid-19 recovery, with 570 patients
declared fully recovered over the last 24 hours.

Announcing the milestone, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe stated 512 of the new
Covid-19 survivors were on home-based care and 58 were in hospitals across the
country.

The government adopted home-based care in the fight against the pandemic
amid concerns that the country’s health care system was stretched to the limit
with a surge in Covid-19 cases.

Recoveries currently stand at 3638.

The CS also announced that 421 new cases had been reported across the
country over the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 11,673.

Mr Kagwe said the new infections included 409 Kenyans and 12 foreigners, the youngest being a one-year-old toddler and the oldest 93.

The CS also put Pathologists Lancet Kenya on the spot for
conducting coronavirus testing services which produce conflicting results after a series of
tests conducted at the facility sparked outrage.

This is after 17 teaching staff of St Andrew’s School Turi,
were tested for COVID-19 at Lancet laboratories and declared positive for the
virus only to be told they were COVID-free after their samples were taken to
the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri).

“It is true that there is one lab, specifically Lancet that carried out
these tests that eventually turned from positive to negative. It is also the
same lab that had also tested a group of people in Nairobi that also had the
same circumstance,” said the Health CS.

“The Ministry will take its measures… we have asked our board to review
that particular laboratory. But what I would like to urge is that if a lab has
got all these unclear results, don’t go there. Why are you going to a lab that
you know has been giving information that may not be clear.” Said the CS.

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