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City prisons register 31 Covid positive cases

Prisons Commissioner General Wycliffe Ogalo during a visit to Hola GK Prison in Tana River County in September 2019. [Hassan Barisa, Standard]

Thirty-one inmates in Nairobi prisons have tested positive for coronavirus.

According to the Kenya Prisons Service (KPS), the positive cases emerged from 59 samples collected from remandees and prisoners on Thursday.

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