This archive report was first published on 13 July 2020.
Published on July 13, 2020, Nairobi News reported that 15 nurses at Pumwani Maternity Hospital had tested positive for Covid-19.
The Kenya Union of Nurses (KUN) confirmed the cases, with Mr. Boaz Onchari, the KUN chairman in Nairobi County, expressing concern over the situation.
"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," Mr. Onchari said.
Fortunately, all the 15 nurses were asymptomatic, and no deaths had been reported at the time.
The cases come just days after a doctor handling Covid-19 patients died of the virus.
On Monday, July 13, 189 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in the country, pushing the national tally to 10,294.
