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More laboratories are to be set up at Kenya-Tanzania border posts to ramp up testing for the coronavirus and facilitate faster movement of cargo into and out of the country amid complaints by truck drivers and businesses about losses related to delayed results.
Truck drivers have complained about being forced to wait for over three days for the tests results causing snarl-ups at the border points and goods to go bad.
“The problem we currently have is along the Tanzanian border at Isebania, Namanga, and Taita Taveta where we do not yet have functional laboratories that can do the test and turn around the results very quickly," said Dr Aman.
Two truck drivers were confirmed to be positive for the virus in Taita Taveta.
Fifty-three foreign truck drivers were denied entry at the Kenyan Tanzanian border after they tested positive.
