More coronavirus variants detected in Kisumu, says officer

Health CS Mutahi Kagwe (left) consults Kisumu County Governor Anyang' Nyong'o during Covid-19 briefing in Kisumu on August 9, 2020. (Denish Ochieng, Standard)

More variants of Covid-19 have been detected in Kisumu even as the county government ordered mortuaries to dispose of all bodies in their custodies to curb their spread.

Health Executive Boaz Nyunya said the government carried out gene sequencing from 28 samples out of which the Indian variant was found to be the most prevalent form of the virus, at 71.8 per cent.