Senators have questioned how a law firm that offered legal services to the Ministry of Health in the execution of the Sh63 billion Managed Equipment Service...
Licensed Private Laboratory – Lancet has been recieving blows derailing its public trust as patients whom they diagnose as positive turns out negative on repeat testing...
The coronavirus strain that is circulating and causing infection in the country is not different from others circulating elsewhere in the world, the Kenya Medical Research...
31 Dec 2019 Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, China, reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province. A novel coronavirus was eventually identified. 1 January 2020 WHO...
By Dr Piers Robinson, who researches and writes about propaganda and communications. He is the author of The CNN Effect: The Myth of News, Foreign Policy and Intervention and Pockets of...
Dr Joel Lutomiah, the Kenya Medical Research Institute Centre for Virus Research director who was demoted over alleged failure to release Covid-19 test results to the...
(Business insider) For the last six years, bioengineers at MIT and Harvard have been developing sensors that can detect viruses like Zika and Ebola. In 2014,...
(Reuters) – A troop of monkeys in India attacked a medical official and snatched away blood samples of patients who had tested positive for the novel...
A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt. The outbreak first emerged in...
(AFP) – Spraying disinfectant on the streets, as practised in some countries, does not eliminate the new coronavirus and even poses a health risk, the World...
Tanzania President Magufuli continues to be a man of his own and a rebel to the fear factor that Covid-19 came with. While speaking during a...
Tanzanian President John Magufuli questioned the reliability of government data on the coronavirus outbreak and ordered a criminal investigation into the national medical laboratory, suggesting “sabotage...
Before debuting on the political scene, Mr Kagwe worked in the media, at the Standard Group’s advertising department between 1987 and 1989, while also doing private...
By Sharri Markson For The Daily Telegraph China deliberately suppressed or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus outbreak in an “assault on international transparency’’ that cost tens...
Panic has gripped Taveta sub-county at the Kenya-Tanzania border after a middle-aged man reported to have escaped from a Covid-19 quarantine facility in Tanzania was admitted...
Kenya is now scaling up its testing capacity with a decentralized system away from the National Influenza Centre. Ministry of health has approved and listed laboratories...
Kenya has joined the countries “repurposing” the banned antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine for emergency use ahead of mass testing for Covid-19. The country has ordered a one-off...
Editor’s note – SARS-COV-2 is the technical name of the novel coronavirus purported to cause covid-19 French Nobel prize winning scientist Luc Montagnier has sparked a...
Having been declared a pandemic, Covid19 is giving countries sleepless nights. It happens that China is the large if not the only country supplying the world...
The Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology has started production of hand washing soap, sanitisers, chlorine and disinfectants...