This is after a regional testing centre was set up at Wajir County Hospital to serve Isiolo, Mandera, Garissa and Wajir. Test runs started on Monday, according to acting public health director general Patrick Amoth. Initially, samples were transported to Nairobi for testing at the National Influenza Centre and the Kenya Medical Research Institute. The Wajir facility was built by the World Bank under the East Africa Public Health Laboratory Networking Project and has the ability to test between 60 and 100 samples in a day. Five of these facilities are in Nairobi - the National Influenza Centre, the HIV Reference Laboratory at the National Public Health Laboratory, two testing facilities within Kemri headquarters and the Kenyatta National Hospital.

Source: The Star April 28, 2020 18:56 UTC