Recoveries Surpass 100 Mark: Kenya COVID-19

After patients’ recovery today, Kenya’s government efforts on COVID-19 are fruitful. CEO of CAS, Dr Rashid Aman has said that 8 patients were discharged from the hospitals over the last 24 hours, taking the total number of our recoveries to 106. Dr Rashid said while updating the media COVID-19 at Afya House “We found that the number of recoveries continues to increase as fatality stagnates.”

He emphasized that over the past week the number of people died from COVID-19 had stayed as 14. A committed health workforce, and declared that the Ministry tested 500 cases in the past 24 hours, of which 12 were confirmed with a total of 355 new cases. 8 of these are Nairobi cases, and 4 are Mombasa cases. All are Kenyans aged 14 to 60 and three have been travelling from Somalia recently.

The Nairobi cases, Dr Rashid said are spread out:

He agreed that Absa Bank Kenya, PLC and Minet Kenya Insurance provide health care staff and those in quarantine, in isolation centres and their families with psychological assistance today. “They can be contacted for counselling and assistance by anyone who may be psychological distress,” said Dr Rashid. He has also thanked Mama Mbogas, wedding operators, matatu, teens, taxi drivers, locals and many others, and told them to stay focused and stay on track.

The CAS also announced that Coronavirus met today and will soon provide guidance on the part-opening of restaurants and restaurants. The National Emergency Response Committee (NERC). The NERC, however, urged the Council Governments to increase the training of their health workers by hiring the qualified staff like coaches, so that track drivers can start at any frontier bench immediately.

The Minister of Health and the county governments, in partnership with the county governments, established County level 4 to 6 COVID 19 isolating facilities and urged the counties to strengthen multi-sectoral frameworks and use new nutrition recommendations to inform their citizens about how to stay healthy. 

The CAS also suggested that Kenyans protect themselves from malaria during this period as malaria symptoms like headache and nausea are coincidentally the same as those for COVID 19.

Professor George Magoha, Cabinet Secretary for Education who also attended reported that the COVID 19 had taken school days to an additional month. Students who had their daily calling in April and were due to end on 4th May are going to extend their vacation by one month from the opening date, he said.

“There will be other actions during this transitional period depending on how the state regulates COVID 19,” he said. He also made it clear that any time the exam is administered, any Kenyan child will be able to cover any time lost before the test is administered. 

“At this stage, both KCPE and KCSE have not been dealt with by the government. Let the children enjoy the holidays of the past week and then continue the month added to them, “said Dr Magoha.

The government has been working on scenarios to reduce the influence of Covid-19 on the school calendar, as most are used for quarantine. Governor Mohammed Kuti also urged the standards office in the Kenya area to boost their capacity to centralize the production of masks and other protective equipment, not only in Nairobi but also in the districts, in order to support young people and women’s mask-producing groups.

About malaria and stigma, the Governor noted that pregnant mothers are afraid of going out for health care, vaccination has also gone down and attempts are therefore underway to locate COVID health centres far away from other usual health facilities so that they can deal with other conditions. Dr Kuti also agreed that mass testing remains a bit challenging due to the worldwide scarce reagents which claim that there are only 5,000 currently but the administration will obtain 24,000 test kits that will increase the capacity of countries to test more citizens.

Data Source: Ministry of Health, Kenya and APO