Thirty-two people who were in mandatory quarantine at a facility in Elwak in Mandera county have escaped under unclear circumstances. The 32 were out of 66 passengers placed in quarantine after travelling from Nairobi last Wednesday. This was revealed in a letter addressed to Mandera South deputy county commissioner Abdihakim Dubat written by Health Executive Ahmed Sheikh. “I write to register our displeasure with the manner in which 32 people out of 66 passengers disappeared from quarantine facilities under the watch of police officers,” the letter reads. This comes even as authorities raised concern over increasing positive cases in rural counties, among them Mandera, which as of Monday had six confirmed cases.

Source: The Star April 15, 2020 02:15 UTC