Nairobi, Kenya | By Michael Wandati | Kenya has confirmed its first case of Coronavirus since the beginning of the outbreak in China in December 2019 . This is also the first case in East Africa.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe on Friday 13th, March 2020 said the patient is a Kenyan female student who travelled from United States via London, United Kingdom on the 5th March 2020.
He said that although the patient, a Kenyan, is clinically stable and eating, she will not be released from isolation at the Infectious Diseases Unit at Kenyatta National Hospital until she is confirmed negative.
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The government says it has traced all contacts the patient made since her arrival in Kenya.
