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Deputy President William Ruto has refuted claims that he has been busy tending to cabbages at his farm in Sugoi, Uasin Gishu County. Ruto, through Twitter on Saturday, shared a photo of his expansive cabbage farm and clarified that he has not been there. Ruto instead said he is busy helping…

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has hailed Kenya Airways pilot who died of coronavirus on Wednesday, April 1st as a hero. In a message of condolence to the family of Captain Daudi Kimuyu Kibati, CS Kagwe said the deceased made the ultimate sacrifice by evacuating many Kenyans from New York…

Kenya on Saturday confirmed an additional four cases of coronavirus, raising the tally to 126. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, in a media briefing, said the new cases were detected from 372 samples tested in the past 24 hours.  Out of the four cases, three are Kenyans and one is a…

A six-year-old Kenyan boy has become the latest coronavirus patient to die of the disease in Kenya. The boy’s death brings the total number of Covid-19 fatalities in the country to four. In a press briefing on Friday, Health CAS Dr. Mercy Mwangangi said the boy had underlying medical conditions and…

Kenya is set to manufacture 60 million face masks to boost its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the government has said. Speaking during a media briefing on Friday, Trade and Industrialization Cabinet Secretary Betty Maina said the protective masks will be produced by four biggest fabric…

Kenyan billionaire industrialist Narendra Raval has donated Sh100 million worth of oxygen to government hospitals. Narendra, who is the CEO of the Devki Group, announced the move through his Twitter page on Thursday, saying the oxygen will be used in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in…

A group of at least 15 Kenyans is presently stuck in Doha, Qatar after they failed to get a flight back home. The group is stranded at the Hamad International Airport and cannot leave the airport since Doha is on lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The Kenyans, some of whom were in transit,…

A Kenya Airways pilot who evacuated Kenyans from the US last week due to the coronavirus pandemic has passed away. Captain Daudi Kimuyu Kibati is one of the two people the Health Ministry on Thursday announced they had succumbed to Covid-19, raising the number of fatalities in the country to three…

Kilifi Deputy Governor Gideon Saburi was on Friday afternoon arrested for defying the government’s directive to self-quarantine for 14 days after arriving from abroad. Saburi was arrested moments after he left the Coast General Hospital where he was under mandatory isolation after testing positive…

The Rift Valley Textile Company (Rivatex) is set to begin mass production of face masks required in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The Eldoret-based garment manufacturer said it will be making 5,000 protection masks per day and sell them at fair prices. Rivatex CEO Prof. Thomas Kurgat…