The Ministry of Health has enhanced the country’s level of alertness in response to the outbreak of coronavirus that has been reported in China, the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Sicily Kariuki said today.
“We have activated our national task force that is multi-sectoral that is now receiving updates from the Wealth Health Organization in Geneva on how best we can respond, to safeguard the Kenyan people,” the CS said during the 5th Beyond Zero Medical Safari event presided by the First Lady Margaret Kenyatta at Uhuru Park, Nairobi.
The CS reaffirmed that the ministry has enhanced screening at JKIA and “I can confirm we are safe and there has been no case of Coronavirus. Our Hospitals are well equipped and ready to handle this virus,” she added.
The deadly virus has so far claimed 26 reported deaths as the ‘ground zero’ city of Wuhan in China, comes under lockdown to contain the situation.
