Coronavirus
KEMRI To Perform 12,000 Covid-19 Tests In A Day
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has revealed plans to undertake over 12,000 tests for the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Responding to a concerned Kenyans who had raised issue with the earlier announced 300 tests per day, KEMRI said they were in the middle of testing for SARS-COV-2 using manual assays.
“It was mentioned that the current country diagnostic capacity is 300 samples per day. Is this for all the centres you had mentioned that can conduct tests or the National Influenza Centre only?” One Ondari Mogeni had posed.
To which KEMRI responded “Currently, KEMRI is testing for SARS-COV-2 using manual assays, which were put together at very short notice. Very shortly, high throughput assays will come into use, with a capacity of thousands of tests These assays can provide at least 12000 test results a day.”
Kenya recently received 25,000 test kits from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, which Kenya’s Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announced would ease the testing of patients as the country can currently only test slightly over 300 people per day.
Kenya Insights allows guest blogging, if you want to be published on Kenya’s most authoritative and accurate blog, have an expose, news TIPS, story angles, human interest stories, drop us an email on [email protected] or via Telegram
Iran War: Hormuz Crisis Raises Fears For Global Agriculture And Food Security
Named: Havi Says Mutava Confessed He Was Collecting The Bribe For Lady Justice Josephine Mongare, So Why Is JSC Still Silence?
Chinese National Arrested Over Attempt To Smuggle 2,000 Queen Ants From Kenya
Kenya’s Public Debt Explodes Past Sh12 Trillion, Devouring Nearly Half of All Tax Revenue
SPY IN THE HOUSE: Kirinyaga MP Njeri Maina Accuses Malala of Running Secret Ruto Operation Inside DCP
Parliament Faults Vodacom’s Safaricom Share Sale As Kenya Stands To Lose, Makes New Orders
The Art of the Corporate Shakedown and Extortion tactics – Jilk Construction versus KBL
Kindiki’s Wife Spent Sh45 Million In Six Months Without Parliament Approval
THE MAN WHO OWNS YOUR GOVERNMENT: How a Private Firm Seized Kenya’s Digital State and Refuses to Let Go
High Court Blocks NTSA Instant Traffic Fines
Russian Man’s Secret Sex Recordings Ignite Fury as Questions Mount Over Consent and Easy Pick-Ups in Nairobi
THE FIRM IN THE DOCK: How Kaplan and Stratton Became the Most Scrutinised Law Firm in Kenya
Multi-Million Dollar Fraud: Three Kenyans Face US Extradition in Massive Cybercrime Conspiracy
Iran Demands Arrest, Prosecution Of Kenya’s Cup of Joe Director Director Over Sh2.6 Billion Tea Fraud
Ex-Inchcape Kenya CEO Sanjiv Shah Charged With Bank Fraud
FBI Investigates Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s Husband’s Sh3.8 Billion Businesses in Kenya, Somalia and Dubai
A Farm in Kenya’s Rift Valley Ignites a National Reckoning With Israeli Investment
A UN Director Based in Nairobi Was Deep in an Intimate Friendship With Epstein — He Even Sent Her a Sex Toy
Kenya Strips Dutch Climate Body of Diplomatic Immunity Amid Donor Fraud Scandal and Allegations of Executive Capture
Sifuna, Babu Owino Are Uhuru’s Project, Orengo Is Opportunist, Inconsequential in Kenyan Politics, Miguna Says
-
News1 week agoEx-Inchcape Kenya CEO Sanjiv Shah Charged With Bank Fraud
-
Development2 weeks agoKenya Strips Dutch Climate Body of Diplomatic Immunity Amid Donor Fraud Scandal and Allegations of Executive Capture
-
Business3 days agoWaweru’s Bank Pockets Sh1.16 Billion from KPC IPO While Ordinary Kenyans Fled the Sale
-
Investigations2 days agoHow Little-Known Pesa Print, Linked to State House Tycoons, Won NTSA Tender Worth Sh42 Billion in Traffic Fines
-
Politics2 weeks agoNIS Kismu Hotel Secret Tape That Sealed Gachagua’s Fate and MP Ng’eno Death in A Chopper Crash
-
Investigations4 days agoSOLD TO THE BULLET: How the Bodyguard Handed MP Ong’ondo Were to His Killers
-
News2 weeks agoInvestor Sued Over Sh30,000 Fee to Access Runda Road
-
Investigations1 week agoI Swore Never To Hire The Chopper Again, Author Recalls Harrowing Experience in Helicopter That Killed MP Ng’eno Alleges Poor Maintenance By Owners