The deaths of three members of a Kitui County family in less than a week have left a village in grief. As the family was gathering to plan the second burial yesterday, family matriarch Anne Nzisiva Ileve complained of a headache, fever and difficulty in breathing. Local local administrators, health authorities and other leaders have gone to the homestead to console the family. “The first death was of an individual who had travelled from Mombasa, one of the Covid-19 hotspots.”Dr Muthoka added that health authorities have begun tracing anyone who interacted with the three. The grieving family is preparing to bury the bodies that are lying at Kitui County Referral Hospital mortuary.

Source: Daily Nation October 28, 2020 07:18 UTC