KENYA NEWS

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has revealed how a group of Kenyans pretending to be mourners carried an empty coffin to trick authorities into allowing them to travel from Nairobi to Homa Bay county. This was after the government banned people from entering or leaving the Nairobi…

Kenya on Saturday confirmed 16 additional cases of the Covid-19 disease, raising the total number of infections in the country to 262. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, in a media briefing, said the 16 positive cases were confirmed from 1,015 samples tested in the past 24 hours. 15 out of the…

It costs about Sh1 million to treat a single Covid-19 patient in Kenya, the Health Ministry has revealed. The bill comprises protective gear worn by doctors and nurses, food, medicine, hospital bed and other services provided to patients during their stay in hospital. For example, the cost of one…

Kenyans quarantined in five facilities in Nairobi over Covid-19 will have their quarantine period extended by 14 more days, the Health Ministry has said. This is after the individuals held in these centers were found to have defied social distancing directive and instead had close contact and…

Popular Kenyan activist Okiya Omtatah’s 21-year-old daughter has passed away. Maryanne Marisyanna Omtatah, a third-year student at Riara University, died while receiving treatment at Bungoma Hospital on Thursday night. Maryanne was in a coma for a week at the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU)…

Nairobi nominated MCA Anne Muthoni Thumbi, a trained nurse has volunteered to work in a local health facility amid the Covid-19 outbreak in Kenya. Muthoni decided not to let her medical skills go to waste after the Nairobi County Assembly suspended sittings for 30 days over fears of the virus. The…

The government has suspended the disbursement of retirement package to ODM leader Raila Odinga due to the Covid-19 crisis. This comes after the National Treasury withdrew Sh1.5 billion in retirement benefits that had been set aside for former Prime Ministers, Vice Presidents, Chief Justices, and…

The tally of coronavirus infections in Kenya has increased to 246 after 12 additional people tested positive for the disease. The 12 cases were confirmed from 450 samples tested by Friday morning, according to Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe. Kagwe, while addressing reporters at the Jomo…

Kilifi Deputy Governor Gideon Saburi has been released on a cash bail of Sh200,000 or an alternative of Sh500,000 bond with one surety of a similar amount. Saburi, who has been in custody since April 3rd, was freed on Thursday by Mombasa Resident Magistrate Elvis Micheka, who faulted the…

President Kenyatta has announced the confirmation of nine additional cases of the coronavirus disease in the country. Uhuru, while addressing the nation from State House on Thursday, said the nine new cases were detected from 704 samples tested within the past 24 hours. He said the ages of the nine…