Kisii records Covid-19 case after traveler from Tanzania tests positive

The person who tested positive had been working in some hotel in Morogoro, Tanzania.

Kisii County recorded the first Covid-19 case after a person who had travelled from Tanzania in May 14 tested positive for the virus.

Samples were taken on May 15 to KEMRI which gave the results on Wednesday morning.
Twenty-three of the locals who were in the containment area with the victim at the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) Kisii will be re-tested.
“We have since transferred him from quarantine centre to the isolation unit at the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital,” says Kisii County Governor James Ongwae.
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14 contacts of the said individual have also been put into quarantine at the KMTC Kisii.
The individual had been working in some hotel in Morogoro, Tanzania.