This archive report was first published on 13 July 2020.
On July 13, 2020, the Kenya Union of Nurses (KUN) confirmed that 15 nurses at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi had tested positive for Covid-19.
According to Mr Boaz Onchari, the KUN chairman in Nairobi County, the situation is worrying, especially since the nurses were asymptomatic.
"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 15 nurses were asymptomatic, and no deaths have been reported at the hospital, which is the largest maternity hospital in the city.
This outbreak comes just a few days after a doctor who had been handling Covid-19 patients died of the virus.
On July 13, 2020, 189 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in the country, pushing the national tally to 10,294.
