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Kenya: Country Reports First Coronavirus-Related Death
Nation, 26 March 2020
Kenya reported its first coronavirus-related death on Thursday evening, Health Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said in a statement. Read more »
The 66-year-old patient was a diabetic who was admitted at the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi. He arrived in the country on March 13 from South Africa via Swaziland, according to Health Cabinet Secretary, Mutahi Kagwe. Kenya now has over 30 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus.
A ministry of health official fumigates a Nairobi street as part of measures to combat coronavirus (file photo).
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