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Kenya: Kenyatta Lifts Cessation Order
Nation, 6 July 2020
President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced that the cessation of movement order that barred entry into and out of Nairobi, Mombasa and Mandera Counties shall lapse on Tuesday at 4… Read more »
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Kenya: Big Fight Over Easing of Lockdown
Nation, 5 July 2020
Opinion was by Sunday night divided on whether or not it’s the right time for President Kenyatta to remove restrictions put in place to contain the spread of Covid-19. Read more »
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Kenya: COVID-19 - 'Bad Behaviour' Sets Kenya Back as Cases Shoot to 7,886
Nation, 5 July 2020
Three hundred and nine more people have contracted the coronavirus, the Health ministry announced on Sunday, raising Kenya's total number of cases to 7,886. Read more »
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Kenya: Study Shows 74% of Kenyans Hard Hit By COVID-19
Capital FM, 5 July 2020
74 percent of Kenyans have experienced a major decline in earnings over curfew and travel restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus in Kenya. Read more »
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Kenya: Top Hospitals Running Out of ICU Beds as COVID-19 Cases Surge
Nation, 4 July 2020
Hospitals are running out of space in Intensive Care Units due to the Covid-19 pandemic that is spreading fast across the country. The facilities are fast getting overwhelmed with… Read more »
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Kenya: COVID-19 - Govt Spending Sh71,000 a Day Per Intensive Care Patient
Capital FM, 4 July 2020
The health ministry is spending Sh71,000 a day per patient to manage COVID-19 cases under intensive care. Read more »
Kenyatta Eases Movement Order as Top Hospitals Run Out of Beds
While announcing that the order barring entry into and out of Nairobi, Mombasa and Mandera Counties is lifted, President Uhuru Kenyatta has extended the nationwide curfew by a further 30 days. Hospitals are reportedly running out of space in intensive care units due to the COVID-19 pandemic as facilities are fast being overwhelmed with critically ill patients.
InFocus
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The decision is a huge reprieve to freighters who risked losing hundreds of jobs following the ban on use of trucks to transport goods from the port city of Naivasha to Nairobi and ... Read more »
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Health Chief Administrative Secretary, Mercy Mwangangi, has attributed the surging rate of infection to high importation of cases into the two counties at the beginning of the ... Read more »
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Families of Covid-19 patients who have been buried by health officials donned in personal protective gear have decried the manner in which their family members have been buried, ... Read more »
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Isolation facilities are full and since 80% of the patients in various hospitals are asymptomatic many will be released to be taken care of at home, according to Health Cabinet ... Read more »
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Health workers say patients fear contracting the virus, forcing those with obstetric fistula, a childbirth-related injury caused by birthing complications, to suffer in silence. ... Read more »
Some of the facilities at the Mandera County Referral Hospital's Intensive Care Unit.
