The Kenya Ports Authority employee who tested positive for covid-19 last week is one of the patients who succumbed to the virus.
The employee, a 58-year-old woman, is said to have developed complications related to the disease before she passed on.
The woman died at a private hospital and was buried discreetly at the Mbaraki cemetery in a ceremony attended by few.
Reports indicated that she died at a private hospital before she was buried later during the day.
Her daughter is said to be one of those who had been quarantined at the Coast General Hospital and was still under observation.
The 58-year-old, a long-serving staff at KPA, was one of the two patients Health CS Mutahi Kagwe announced had succumbed to the disease.
"I am saddened to announce that we have lost two Covid-19 patients, which brings the number of deaths from the virus in Kenya to three. One in Nairobi and another in Mombasa " he stated.
The number of those who have succumbed to the disease in Kenya is now at 3, with 110 people having being confirmed positive for Covid-19 as at Thursday, April 4.
On Monday, March 30, panic gripped the KPA after a cleaner who claimed to have been in contact with her was taken ill.
KPA manager in charge of operations, William Ruto, assured the employees that there was no cause for panic.
He stated that the confirmed case had left work on Friday, March 20, and had been in hospital since then.
