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The mess in quarantine facilities

Detectives on a police car ferrying Kilifi Deputy Governor Gideon Saburi who had been quarantined at the Coast General Hospital over coronavirus. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

Kenyans in mandatory quarantine have protested conditions in the holding centres risk spread of infections now that some have tested positive for coronavirus.

Some 2,050 individuals who flew into the country from March 23 have been in mandatory quarantine for two weeks - which has since been extended by a similar period after at least 29 tested positive for the deadly virus - in various hotels and government facilities.

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