Kilifi DG Gideon Saburi under quarantine at Coast General Hospital after trip abroad » Capital News

NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 22 – Kilifi  Deputy Governor Gideon Saburi is under isolation at Mombasa’s Coast General Teaching and Referral  Hospital coronavirus quarantine centre, the county’s Health Executive Anisa Omar has confirmed.

Omar told Cabinet FM News Saburi was taken to the quarantine facility on Saturday.

She, however, declined to give further details on whether the Deputy Governor had disregarded a mandatory 14-day self quarantine directive.

The
Deputy Governor is said to have returned from an oversees recently and was
required to self-quarantine for 14 days in accordance with guidelines issued by
the health ministry.

The
government has so far confirmed seven positive cases in the country, with a
dozen other people under isolation said to be under close monitoring.

Health
Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe promised to give a status update later today on
progress made in fighting the pandemic that has claimed over 13,000 lives
around the globe, Italy recording the highest fatalities at 4,825.

Some
95,000 have however recovered.

Earlier
on Sunday, Kagwe called for concerted efforts to fight coronavirus, a
global pandemic.

Speaking
during a video conference with medics from Wuhan, China and France to share
knowledge, Kagwe said the coronavirus pandemic calls for global solutions.

“This
disease is global in nature and therefore the solution to the disease is also
global in nature and the advice you are giving us is the advice we are giving
our people, we are telling them to observe very serious hygiene levels, we are
telling them about hand washing, we are telling them about the social
distancing,” he said after the video conference, the second since last week.

Kenya
and the rest of the world are trying to learn from China, which has brought
cases to zero, after implementing tough measures.

Kagwe
reiterated Kenya’s preparedness in dealing with the pandemic, while emphasizing
the need for everyone to play their part in defeating the pandemic.

Rwanda
has recorded the highest number of infections in East Africa standing at
seventeen with Uganda having recorded its first case on Saturday.