President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday ordered the closure of borders with Tanzania and Somalia as cross-border Covid-19 infections continued to rise.
The closure of the borders, President Kenyatta said, was necessitated by an increase in the number of “imported” Covid-19 cases.
The President’s sixth address on the Covid-19 pandemic came as the country registered 49 new cases, bringing the national tally to 830.
Led by their president, Dr Jacqueline Kitulu, the KMA Covid-19 Response Advisory Committee noted that to date, the amount of testing in the restricted areas and in the rest of the country has remained significantly below what is expected for a country of our size and means.
But the committee has established countries that include Singapore, Germany and Ghana that did extremely well initially, eased the containment measures and then suffered dangerous spikes in new rates of infections,” said the President.