Covid-19: State to test 250,000 people by end of June
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe gives a daily update on coronavirus epidemic, at Afya House in Nairobi on April 22, 2020.
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Article Author: Covid-19: State to test 250,000 people by end of June
Media Source: Daily Nation (Kenya)
Date: 23 April 2020
The government of Kenya has announced plans to conduct 250,000 coronavirus tests by end of June as the number of positive cases rose to 303. In its daily update on the Covid-19 pandemic, the Health ministry said it has 25,000 kits deployed for testing of health workers and other high-risk areas. Dr Majid Twahir, Associate Dean for…
The government of Kenya has announced plans to conduct 250,000 coronavirus tests by end of June as the number of positive cases rose to 303. In its daily update on the Covid-19 pandemic, the Health ministry said it has 25,000 kits deployed for testing of health workers and other high-risk areas. Dr Majid Twahir, Associate Dean for clinical affairs and Chief of staff at the Aga Khan University Hospital, said: "It is crucial to implement wide-scale testing. It might be expensive to test randomly and so the government might consider testing high density and traffic areas".