Lamu County Health Executive, Dr Anne Gathoni, said samples taken from the patient for Covid-19 testing before she died later returned a positive diagnosis. This is the first official Covid-19 death recorded in Lamu County. We've also observed the isolation centres and we discovered that they don't have the machines required to attend to Covid-19 patients. She said the county has already trained over 500 health workers on how to handle Covid-19 patients. "We've also set aside 30 isolation beds for Covid-19 patients.

Source: Daily Nation July 09, 2020 06:56 UTC