April 2020 BBCNews; Governments should not issue so-called “immunity passports” or “risk-free certificates” as a way of easing lockdowns, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. It said there was “no evidence” that people who had developed antibodies after recovering from the virus were protected against a second infection. Such a …

April 2020 TheStar; Safaricom is set to roll out a free internet bundles and airtime package for health workers, CAS Mercy Mwangangi has said. During a press briefing on Tuesday at Afya House, Mwangangi thanked the telecommunications company for the support through it’s foundation and other donations that have come …

Dear Mr President, Accept my greetings and best wishes to you and the nation as we navigate through the   COVID 19 crisis. I commend you and your government, particularly the ministry of health for the handling of the crises so far. Your increased measures for cushioning the vulnerable is commendable …

April 2020 theStar; Kenya has reported 16 new cases of Covid-19 bringing the total to 262, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has told Senators. Mutahi said this during a zoom meeting with Senate Ad-Hoc Committee chaired by Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja. The CS also said that two more people have died …

In South Korea, health officials are trying to solve a mystery: why 163 people who recovered from coronavirus have retested positive, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). The same has been recorded in China, where some coronavirus patients tested positive after seeming to recover, although …

Doctors in Japan have warned that the country’s medical system could collapse amid a wave of new coronavirus cases. Emergency rooms have been unable to treat some patients with serious health conditions due to the extra burden caused by the virus, officials say. One ambulance carrying a patient with coronavirus …

April 2020 BBCNews; US President Donald Trump has said he is going to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) because it has “failed in its basic duty” in its response to the coronavirus outbreak. He accused the UN agency of mismanaging and covering up the spread of the …

April 2020 theStandard; Between 800,000 and 2 million Kenyans could die from the novel coronavirus should the country get into a full-blown epidemic, a new study by scientists from Amref Health Africa says. According to the study released on Good Friday, most of the victims will be those aged above …

April 2020 theStar; Kenya has reported a total of 208 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus. This is after 11 more cases were reported in the last 24 hours. Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said the 11 were out of 674 samples that were tested. He said out of the 11, …

April 2020 Daily nation; The board of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) has appointed Dr Peter Kamunyo Gathenge as the new chief executive officer with effect from next week on Tuesday. Dr Gathenge, a health care executive, takes over from Nicodemus Odongo who has been performing the role in …