This archive report was first published on 13 July 2020.
On July 13, 2020, Kenya's Health Cabinet Secretary, Mutahi Kagwe, confirmed that 22 health workers at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi had tested positive for Covid-19.
Speaking at a Covid-19 briefing, Kagwe allayed fears of an outbreak at the hospital, citing the effectiveness of contact tracing in managing the disease.
He revealed that a targeted mass testing exercise had identified the 22 cases, who were subsequently placed under isolation.
News of the cases broke on social media over the weekend, with a video of Nairobi County's Nurses Head, Boaz Onchari, going viral. Onchari claimed that 15 of the nurses were asymptomatic.
On the same day, Kagwe announced 189 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 10,294.
He denied assertions that some health facilities in Nairobi County were suffering a shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs), stating that his office had not received any information from hospital management regarding a shortage.
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