Panic as 15 Pumwani Hospital Nurses Contract Covid-19

At least 15 nurses and an unknown number of other healthcare workers at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi have reportedly contracted Covid-19.

This was revealed by the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) chairperson Boaz Onchari, who could not confirm the actual number of health workers infected with the virus at the facility.

“I cannot tell the accumulative number of health workers at the hospital who have tested positive. But I can speak for nurses and I can confirm that 15 of them have tested positive,” he said as quoted by Nairobi News.

Onchari further indicated that none of the 15 nurses is in critical condition and most of them are asymptomatic.

While expressing concerns over the positive cases at the largest maternity facility in the country, Onchari also confirmed that the union has so far lost two of its members to the disease.

On Monday, Kenya reported 189 new cases of Covid-19, raising the tally of infections to 10,294. The number of recoveries rose by 65 to 2,946.

At the same time, the country recorded its highest number of Covid-19 fatalities in a single day at 12, pushing the death toll to 197.