This archive report was first published on 13 July 2020.
On July 13, 2020, a Covid-19 outbreak was confirmed at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Kenya, with 22 health officials testing positive for the virus.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced the outbreak during a daily Covid-19 public briefing, stating that contact tracing was crucial in managing the pandemic. He noted that the ministry had shifted from telephone calls to web tracing, which was more effective.
Following a mass testing exercise, the 22 health workers were identified and placed under isolation immediately. In a video that surfaced online, Kenya National Union of Nurses Nairobi County Chair Boaz Onchari claimed that 15 of the nurses who had tested positive were asymptomatic.
Image courtesy of Kenyan Report.
