This archive report was first published on 3 August 2020.
August 3, 2020 - Nairobi, Kenya
A 32-year-old nurse has become the eighth healthcare worker in Kenya to succumb to COVID-19, just a week after giving birth to a baby boy.
According to Dr. Rashid Aman, the Health Ministry's Chief Administrative Secretary, the nurse, Marian Awuor Adumbo, died on Sunday after contracting the virus at 33 weeks of pregnancy.
"Her death brings the number of healthcare workers that we have lost to the disease to eight," Dr. Aman said during a regular press briefing on COVID-19.
The nurse, who worked at Rachuonyo Sub-County Hospital, gave birth normally to a baby boy weighing 1.7 kilograms at the Kisii Level Five Teaching and Referral Hospital. The baby has tested negative for COVID-19 and is in good health.
Dr. Aman extended the Ministry of Health's condolences to the nurse's family and friends, saying "May her soul rest in peace."
On Monday, 544 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Kenya, raising the country's caseload to 22,597. The new cases were identified from 2,653 samples tested since Sunday.
