This archive report was first published on 10 July 2020.
On July 8, a man working at Unilever Tea Company in Bomet County tested positive for COVID-19, prompting health officials to take swift action.
According to Joseph Sitonik, the county executive in charge of health, a total of 80 members of the man's extended family were traced and asked to go into self-quarantine with close monitoring by administrators and public health officers.
On July 9, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced 447 more COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 8,975, the highest figure ever recorded at that time.
The man who tested positive was taken into isolation at the factory hospital within a tea farm in the neighbouring Kericho county.
Health officials in Bomet County have placed at least 80 people in self-quarantine over fear of spreading the novel coronavirus.
