Five more test positive for Indian Covid-19 variant in Kisumu

A passenger adjusts his N95 protective face mask during the launch of the resumption of flights at JKIA, Nairobi on August 1, 2020. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] .

There is heightened surveillance in Kisumu County where health officials have launched rapid tests following the detection of Indian Covid-9 variant.

County Health executive Boaz Nyunya clarified that the number of patients with the Indian variant were five and not eight as earlier reported and that the "drop is as a result of gene sequencing taking longer.”