5 More People Tests Positive for Indian Variant in Kisumu County
There is heightened surveillance in Kisumu County where the health officials have launched rapid testing following the detection of the Indian Covid-19 variant.
Gathogo Wanjiru 
According to the County Health executive Boaz Nyunya, the number of patients with the Indian variant was five and not eight as earlier reported and that the "drop is as a result of gene sequencing taking longer.”
The CEC said 58 other people tested positive for Covid-19 at Kibos Sugar Company where the five with Indian variant were stationed after traveling from India for a project at the factory.
Nyunya said the total number of reported positive cases is 3181 county after 32,300 tests.
“Unfortunately, we have lost 94 people,” Nyunya said, adding that the lakeside county had enhanced surveillance, screening, and contact tracing and “we are doing rapid tests of all contacts of those who tested positive of the variant traced to India” with about 23,000 people vaccinated against Covid-19.
Residents around Kibos sugar factory have expressed fears of the spread of the Indian variant but Nyunya reassured them measures had been put in place to contain the virus whether the variants were from South African, UK, Brazilian, or India.
