Ms Mochache’s Covid-19 task force reports to the National Emergency Response Committee chaired by Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe. The National Emergency Response Committee is one of four streams that report to the National Coordination Committee on the Response to Coronavirus Pandemic that is chaired by Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i. PHASES OF PANDEMICKenya announced its first case of Covid-19 on March 13, the patient being a 27-year-old with previous travel history to the US. Prof Anzala and his team of epidemiologists, data scientists and mathematical disease modelling experts believe that, based on current trends, Kenya is at the cluster phase of a pandemic. SUFFICIENT RESOURCESProf Anzala and his team of researchers have been looking at the interaction and disease linkages between humans, animals and the environment for years.

Source: Daily Nation April 12, 2020 07:52 UTC