In addition, testing centres are no longer accepting walk-in clients, while little or no contact tracing is going on in counties. AdvertisementThis has affected the time for getting results from 24 hours to seven days in some cases, in turn affecting contact tracing and isolation of positive cases. STRATEGY FAILEDDr Andrew Were, the President of the Kenya Medical Association (KMA), agreed with the WHO that the government’s contact tracing strategy has failed. He told the Nation that reliance on community health volunteers and public health officers initially worked because the numbers were low. It added that this will enable counties to do contact tracing and provide critical things like oxygen and manage resources better.

Source: Daily Nation July 31, 2020 08:00 UTC