Seventeen out of the 18 Covid-19 patients in Mandera County have been discharged from hospital after testing negative even as the county flattened its curve.
"We have flattened the curve for now but we remain vigilant considering our vulnerability as we border Somalia and the rampant movements of our people in and out of Mandera," said Mr Mohamed.
Mandera recorded its first cases from passengers who had travelled from Kilifi to Nairobi before arriving in the frontier county on April 2 by road.
Days before recording the first case, Mandera County had established isolation centres, quarantine facilities, trained health workers, procured supplies, rehearsed contact tracing protocols and engaged various players on ways of preventing the spread of the disease.
"When the first two imported cases landed in Mandera in April via a Makkah bus from Nairobi, the health team was ready and it was all systems go," said Mr Mohamed.
