The patient, a 27-year-old Kenyan woman, had come to see a male friend who is a tenant at the house. As she went about her business normally, she may have passed on the virus unknowingly, putting an unknown number of people at risk. Researchers studying Covid-19 have found that over 10 per cent of patients are infected by someone who has the virus but does not show symptoms yet. “Of all the places, this virus chose our apartment on a dirt road deep inside Ongata Rongai? Pressed to state specifically whether the “no cause for alarm” meant no screening for the tenants, Dr Lagho said: “No cause for screening.

Source: Daily Nation March 15, 2020 08:18 UTC