Breaking: Uhuru Announces 21 Days LockDown In COVID-19 Hit Areas

President Uhuru has declared 21 Days lock down in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kilifi and Kwale effective today from 7PM as COVID-19 Cases rises to 158

The President has also announced 16 new cases as total Corona Virus Kenya increased to 158 after 16 people tested positive today.

The president noted that a total of 4 patients have fully recovered while 4,000 Kenyans have been tested so far in the last 24 hrs.

President Uhuru has urged Kenyans to wear nonsurgical cloth face coverings when they go out in public during this COVID-19 pandemic, he announced today in his address.He said that Kenyans must now prepare for the worst as death have claimed almost 4 lives.

The president said that this is because the virus is primarily transmitted through tiny droplets of saliva ejected when we speak. You can’t see them, but they are there. We also know that these droplets can go significantly further than the 6ft which is widely cited as a safe distance.

He chastised young people for downplaying the directive on social distancing. He told them to be at the forefront in fighting Covid-19.

The appeal comes when studies have shown that the outbreak has entered a new, more potent phase dictated by local or community transmissions and not the ones imported.

The president also urged the youth and the public in general to wear masks when in the public in order to prevent the spread of the deadly virus.

The Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also warn that as many as 25 per cent of people infected with the new coronavirus may not show symptoms.

Experts say the biggest challenge for the ministry will be contact tracing.

This involves identifying, then alerting people who have been within the infection range of a person confirmed to have the virus.

Mr Fredros Okumu, a public health expert, said the use of public service in Kenya makes it very difficult to know the number of people exposed.

Mercy Mwangangi said young people would be rendered jobless should the economy collapse and that they would bury their parents in large numbers.

Using phrases like “my sons” and “my daughters”, Mr Mutahi asked young people to utilize the organizations they have formed such as football clubs, savings and credit cooperative societies, (saccos), businesses and other commercial enterprise groups to augment the government’s efforts in the fight against the pandemic.

“The youth can organise themselves into groups and assist our security agencies in ensuring Kenyans maintain social distance, among other measures we have announced in the fight against this disease,” the minister said.

He repeated that young people should not go to their rural homes because “you might kill your parents or grandparents who are elderly”.

“Statistics show that the young people are the ones contracting the disease and then passing it on to the elderly,” she said.