Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua on Tuesday said that
Coronavirus might help the country in the sense that leaders will be forced to
improve health care in the country.
Speaking to the press, Mutua noted that no country would be
willing to admit a Kenyan leader who has the virus.
“This virus serves as a lesson to us. When our leaders get
sick they often travel to London, India, South Africa and the likes.
“Where will they go now?” he asked.
Adding: “We must take care of our health system. The rich
and the poor are both equal when it comes to fighting Coronavirus. Nobody will
accept you in London…the surgeries and cancer treatment should be done locally.
“It is unfair that every time the rich get sick they seek
treatment abroad while the poor are left behind.”
Three more cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Kenya
bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to seven.
Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Health CS Mutahi
Kagwe said all the cases are from people who had flown into the country
from abroad.
Two of the cases are of a couple that had travelled from
Madrid, Spain, on March 4 through Dubai and arrived in the country on March 5.
“Kenyans travelling from other countries will have to sign a
legal form saying they will self-quarantine, this will allow the government to
jail them should they fail to isolate. Travellers from other countries are the
biggest threat,” Kagwe said.
The third case was a Burundian national who travelled from
Dubai to Kenya arriving on March 17. The patient recorded high temperatures
during the routine screening at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in
Nairobi.
“That establishes what we have been saying all along,
we are able to screen and we are able to pick and we able to determine. So this
one was a case in point, an establishment of that fact,” he noted.
Tracing of the individuals who were in contact with the
patients is ongoing.