Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe denied any cause of alarm at learning institutions in Kenya, saying there are teams on the ground assessing the situation.
He, however, said, necessary measures will be taken should the situation get worse.
“In spite of that we don’t have a panic situation where hospitalization and other measures that we observe, and other variables that we observe are necessarily on the increase,” said CS Kagwe at Afya House, Nairobi.
Kagwe maintained that there is no shortage of vaccines for teachers and other workers in learning institutions across the Country.
“So, in terms of vaccinations there is no shortage of vaccinations for teachers and other school workers as long as they get vaccinated then we can mitigate that particular factor in schools.”
This even as 33 pupils at Blessed Small Angels Academy at Riandira in Mwea-West sub-county, tested positive for COVID-19, prompting the school administration to close the school indefinitely.
In a statement by the Kirinyaga County department of health, the 33 were among 112 pupils who tested positive for the virus after in the country’s Wednesday data record.
He has urged teaching and the non-teaching staffs to get vaccinated having considered as frontline workers.
The CS has further observed that students are asymptomatic and that the challenge becomes when they pass it on to teachers.
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According to the County Secretary and Head of Public Service Patrick Mukuria, the county headquarters will remain closed except those offices providing essential services,
Meetings of all nature will be conducted virtually as entire County office awaits to be fumigated.
CS Kagwe spoke while at at Afya House when he played host to his Tanzanian Counterpart Dr. Doroth Gwajima.
The two ministers tackled cross-border issues that involve citizens of both countries such as transport COVID-19 testing and validation systems for those leaving and entering both countries among other issues.
Dr. Gwijambo urged both countries to maintain the spirit of uniting the East African countries so as to exchange and make the region friendly for everyone.
“We have become a family very strong, bold and our spirit now have been very well united for future and let’s keep so that we enable East Africa one, we can manage our problems. We have enough solutions, enough experience,“ said Dr. Gwajima.
She said Tanzanians have since grown confidence in COVID-19 vaccine, amid the ongoing vaccination programme in the country that kicked off the exercise on July 28.
The exercise was first presented to Tanzanians when the country’s Head of State Samia Suluhu took a short on the arm.
The move marked a break with her predecessor, John Magufuli, a prominent coronavirus skeptic, who died in March from heart complications.
