Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi, on Thursday evening, April 30, disclosed that the county was now free from the Coronavirus disease.
In a statement by the governor, he disclosed that the last six individuals who had tested positive for the virus had all recovered.
"At the moment, Kilifi does not have any active Covid-19 cases under care in any of our health facilities. Scientific results show that out of the 499 tested cases in Kilifi, the 6 cases that had confirmed positive have all recovered thanks," Kingi stated.
Kingi, however, cautioned that the county was not out of the woods yet and urged residents to continue following all the laid down directives.
"We must continue observing the laid down protocols from both the national and county government," Kingi stated.
The county has put in place a raft of measures including quick social interventions and rapid contact tracing since the first Covid-19 case was reported.
The governor was previously quoted affirming that Kilifi was ahead of other counties when it came to coming up with strict measures to curb the spread of the disease.
"We decided to take this action after the county was thrown into a panic mode following the confirmation of the first Covid-19 case,” he stated.
He said that the county government had to act fast when his deputy, Gideon Saburi, was confirmed positive by rushing the contact tracing and placing more than 100 people in quarantine.
Kingi added that the county had come up with ways businesses such as bars, restaurants, boda bodas, matatu and markets would operate.
“We directed boda boda and matatu operators to observe hygiene and limit the number of passengers to enable social distancing. Later, we banned them all together and closed bars, night clubs, quarries and other non-essential businesses,” he noted.
The cessation of movement announced by President Uhuru Kenyatta that saw Kilifi’s boundaries with Mombasa and Kwale closed, have also been a great source of help bearing in mind that Mombasa has struggled to contain the outbreak.
As at Thursday, April 30, Kenya had confirmed 396 cases. Of this, 144 had recovered and 17 had succumbed to the disease.
