Twenty-five mourners who travelled from Mombasa to Siaya for burial were on Friday arrested and put into isolation.
Police allowed a brief burial ceremony of the late Evans Odongo in Ndera village before they seized the mourners from Mombasa and took them to Siaya Kenya Medical Training Centre for isolation.
Anne Wekesa, the widow of the late Odongo, and her three children were among the group bundled into a police truck and put in isolation.
Ms Wekesa said a chief from Tononoka issued the family a letter authorising them travel with the body for burial in Siaya County.
This was after seven mourners, who accompanied the body of a woman who succumbed to Covid-19 in Nairobi's Kibera slum, for burial tested positive.
