This archive report was first published on 5 August 2020.
On August 5, 2020, a family in Migori County was at the center of a Covid-19 scare, with reports emerging that 48 family members had tested positive for the virus.
However, health officials in the county have since denied these reports, stating that only seven members of the family had tested positive.
According to Migori Health executive Isca Oluoch, the 48 samples were collected from primary and secondary contacts of one case, and 14 of them turned positive.
“Out of the 48 samples, 14 turned positive and of the 14 only seven are from one family,” Dr Oluoch said.
The family's ordeal began when Moses Osoro, a senior government official in the Ministry of Devolution, succumbed to the virus and was laid to rest in Suna East on Wednesday.
His brother, Gordon Ogolla, a lawyer based in Nakuru and a former Migori County Assembly Speaker, had taken to social media to claim that his entire family had contracted the virus from one of his elder brothers.
However, Mr Ogolla later clarified that his message was blown out of proportion and was intended to sensitise the public on the gravity of the pandemic.
