Author: Francis Muli

Deputy President Dr William Ruto has announced that at least 20 schools in each county will be identified and equipped to act as health facilities in the fight against coronavirus (covid-19) In a tweet, Dr Ruto says that the Ministry of Health and the county governments have been ordered to ensure the directive is implemented as soon as possible. “Gok has directed the ministry of education to work with ALL county govt’s to identify at least 20 boarding schools per county to be prepared/equipped for use as health facilities as part of Covid-19 preparedness.The health ministry will work with governors…

At least 38 MP and several surbodinate staffers in the National Assembly will be tested for coronavirus (Covid-19) after coming into contact with Rabai MP Kamoti Mwamkale. The Mps include members of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee (JLAC) and the Delegated Legislation Committee, who came into contact with the MP during meetings. Mwamkale tested positive for Covid-19 after coming into contact with Kilifi Deputy Governor Gideon Saburi who is currently in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19. Read: “Stop Sugar-coating COVID-19 Crisis, Thousands Of Quarantined Kenyans Are Yet To Be Tested” , MP Kiarie Tells State The Rabai legislator…

Dagoretti South Member of Parliament John Kiarie has been summoned to Kabete Police Station over his claims that there are more coronavirus (covid-19) cases in the country, than the government is announcing. In a long post on social media today, Kiarie said that at least 7000 Kenyans, who travelled home between Wednesday and Sunday, are quarantined in his constituency. The MP said the Kenyans are quarantined at Lenana School and Kinyanjui Technical Institute. The number of confirmed cases in the country rose to 42 on Sunday. Read: COVID-19: Buy Ventilators With Ksh10 Billion BBI Money, Kenyans Tell Uhuru The disease has already…

A British Airways passenger plane is set to land at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) tonight at 9.50 pm EAT. The plane, a Boeing 747-400 left Heathrow Airport in London at 11.25 am BST, 50 minutes late according to information from flightware.com. According to its design, the plane can accommodate at least  416 passengers. Two days ago, another British Airways flight, BA65, according to Aerotime, took off from Heathrow but after one hour and 40 minutes in the air, the flight landed back in Heathrow. But shortly after landing, it took off for Kenya once again. Last week, the…

A good number of Coast Region residents woke up at night to take sugarless black tea, as the newly ‘discovered’ cure/prevention for the deadly coronavirus (covid-19). A message circulated online told the residents that a child born in Garsen with six teeth and extra weight said that chai ya rangi (sugarless black tea) was the cure for covid-19, and that residents should take the tea before dawn. Allegedly, in the story with several versions,  the child was born and uttered seven words, “dawa ya corona ni chai ya rangi (the cure for coronavirus is black tea)” and died. Read: Jack…

Buglers broke into Kibos police post armoury on Saturday night and stole three guns, a G3, a Liai and an MP5 rifles and 155 rounds of ammunition. According to Kisumu County police commander Job Boronjo, the raid was done at 11pm when the officer who was on duty Constable Peter Ochieng Odenyo left shortly to pick something from his house. “Police Constable Ochieng Odenyo who was the report office personnel said that he had briefly gone to his house and when he came back he found the armoury having been broken into by unknown persons and all the three rifles…

Medics in Kilifi are unable to explain what illness claimed the lives of 17 children between March 2 and March 22, 2020, media reports indicate. According to reports by the Standard, the illness was characterised by difficulty in breathing, a fever, general body weakness, and a dry mild cough. Zacharia Opollo, one of the parents, says that he lost his daughter, Miriam Ndede (one-and-a-half years old) in under 24 hours of falling sick. On the night of March 3, his daughter developed complications with breathing and he rushed her to a private hospital where she was treated and discharged. The…

The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation are sharing key lessons and experience from doctors and other medical administrators and staff at the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (FAHZU), who were at the frontline of COVID-19 treatment in China. The lessons are contained in a digital handbook, and will cover the medics’ experiences from screening, to diagnosis and treatment of patients who contracted COVID-19. The handbook is currently available in seven languages: Chinese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Turkish and it is expected that it will be translated into more languages soon. Read Coronavirus: A Consignment…

Bungoma County is on the spot for doing refusing to purchase coronavirus (covid-19) personal protective equipment (PPE) for their medics, while at the same time borrowing exorbitant amount for awareness campaign. The county medical staff through their leadership did a budget of Ksh123,000 for PPEs, but the county declined to buy the equipment on grounds that the county did not have money. A day later, County Chief Officer Health and Sanitation, Mr Patrick Wandili wrote to the Medical superintendent  Bungoma County Referral Hospital, borrowing Ksh6,986,000 for covid-19 awareness campaign. The funds were marked as an emergency, with a promise that…

At least 70,000 policemen have been deployed by the National Police Service to man the streets and ensure the curfew order is obeyed by all citizens. The officers involve policemen who were on leave but recalled by Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai. According to police spokesman Charles Owino, those who violate the curfew order risk a jail term of up to three years. “The Inspector-General last week recalled all police officers who were on leave and with the curfew, we have enough number of police officers who will be moving around the country to ensure that Kenyans remain indoors,”…

Kenya Airways (KQ) could be operating charter planes to Europe, it has emerged. This is against a directive by the government that temporarily suspended all international passenger planes in Kenya, in a bid to fight the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The directive was to take effect on Wednesday, but a flight schedule in our possession of the national carrier has flights (with passengers) scheduled after the directive took effect. For instance, KQ has two charter planes scheduled for today, one from Amsterdam and another from the John F. Kennedy International Airport, US to arrive in the country tomorrow. Read: British Airways…

The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has began a probe into shooting of Wycliffe Vincent Oduor, a suspect in 2019 Nairobi West ATM heist. This comes moments after criminal lawyer Cliff Ombeta revealed a video showing suspect Wycliffe Vincent Oduor executed in cold blood by police officers in Kayole. In various posts which started yesterday, lawyer Cliff Ombeta alleged that rogue police officer with the support of Kayole OCPD, OCS and top special crime prevention unit officers killed the suspect in cold blood so as to take away money they already recovered from him. According to Ombeta, the suspect was executed…

Yesterday, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe confirmed first coronavirus (Covid-19) death in Kenya. The death is of a 66-year-old man who had arrived into the country from South Africa via Swaziland on March 13. The man was also suffering from diabetes. Engineer Maurice Namiinda from Kiamlewa, Bungoma County is the first Kenyan to succumb to Coronavirus (Covid-19), it has been revealed. “The 66 years old Male Kenyan citizen who passed on this afternoon been admitted at the AghaKhan hospital intensive care Unit ICU. The man who was suffering from diabetes had arrived in the country March 13th ,2020 from South Africa…

British Airways is still flying from Nairobi to London and back, it has emerged. This was confirmed by the US Embassy in Nairobi, who urged US citizens to book the flights in case they wanted to go back home. “We have learned that British Airways is operating two commercial flights from Nairobi to London on Saturday, March 28, and Sunday, March 29. Tickets for these flights can be purchased online,” the Embassy tweeted. https://twitter.com/USEmbassyKenya/status/1243141869330145281 Another plane of the same carrier is reported to have landed in the country tonight at around 9.50pm, almost 24 hours after the government stopped all…

Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has confirmed first coronavirus (Covid-19) death in Kenya. The death is of a 66-year-old man who had arrived into the country from South Africa via Swaziland on March 13. The man was also suffering from diabetes. “The 66 years old Male Kenyan citizen who passed on this afternoon been admitted at the AghaKhan hospital intensive care Unit ICU. The man who was suffering from diabetes had arrived in the country March 13th ,2020 from South Africa vie Swaziland,” said Kagwe in a statement. Earlier today, the country confirmed three more cases of coronavirus. This brings the…