This archive report was first published on 29 June 2020.
Published on June 29, 2020, a COVID-19 outbreak has been reported at Kabarak Guest House in Nakuru, where two staff members have tested positive for the disease.
At least 80 contacts are currently in quarantine at the facility, according to Education CS George Magoha, who had arrived for a seminar that was to kick off on Monday.
Magoha stated that the two positive cases are from samples collected on June 25, 2020, and that the county response team took necessary steps to isolate the cases after receiving the results on June 28, 2020.
‘We were also vetting grade 5 books, we had 295 people at Kabarak, they finished and disbanded two weeks ago. We were to vet books for Grades 9, 10, 11 but two people at the guest house tested positive, 80 people now on quarantine,’ Magoha said.
Magoha and other education ministry officials were at Kabarak to assess the readiness for possible reopening of the institution in September, but the CS expressed concerns about social distancing and the use of hostels in medical colleges in case hospitals become overwhelmed.
‘We shall not open until cases of the disease have stopped increasing. I don’t think the president will open schools when the numbers are still spiking,’ Magoha added.
