A nurse who misused her permit as an essential services provider by travelling out of Nairobi to visit her boyfriend landed 14-days in quarantine on Monday, May 18.
Residents of Shabab in Nakuru raised an alarm on the couple after the nurse travelled from Nairobi in the name of providing essential services.
Speaking to Kenyans.co.ke, Abdulahi Adan a resident of Shabab who was at the scene when the two were rounded up for quarantine detailed the incident.
"The lady arrived here on Monday morning, she had come to visit the boyfriend who stays in a block that has a bar at the front and rooms behind.
"The nurse was from Kariobangi and she was allowed to leave Nairobi after saying that she has gone to provide essential services but ended up at the boyfriend's house," narrated the resident.
He noted that the couple was taken to Nakuru Provisional General Hospital after being rounded up police officers who arrived at the scene.
One of the residents noted that the lady was dressed in a buibui to conceal her identity but she admitted to not being Muslim.
Another resident added that the couple's temperature recording was not alarming but they saw it wise to take them to quarantine because she was from Nairobi.
Residents in Nakuru are in panic after the case became the second in a span of three weeks, about people sneaking out of Nairobi through the pours borders.
On Sunday, May 17 a residential estate in Nakuru with over 300 tenants was sealed off for close to 10 hours after a long-distance truck driver tested positive for Covid-19.
Health officials traced the driver and five other occupants of a house they had been living in for three days after the driver breached self-quarantine advice.
The county has so far confirmed five Covid-19 cases and is emerging as one of the hotspots in the country due to public carelessness.
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