As the country continues to battle with the Covid-19 pandemic, the police service has not been spared.
On Saturday, June 20, Nairobi County Police Commander Philip Ndolo confirmed that three officers who were conducting contact tracing of Covid-19 patients had tested positive for the virus.
Stating that the officers were stationed in different stations, Ndolo revealed that one officer voluntarily took himself for testing at Mbagathi Hospital.
He further revealed that the other two had gone for a check-up after rounding up contacts of Covid-19 patients when they were found to be positive.
All three officers were isolated at Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital for monitoring.
Ndolo confirmed that the officers were in stable condition and their families had also moved to mandatory self-quarantine in their homes.
Incidences of police being infected with the virus have been reported since the outbreak was confirmed in Kenya.
Earlier in April 2020, programmes at the Kenya Police Training College in Kiganjo, Nyeri were suspended over the coronavirus pandemic after it emerged one officer at the college tested positive of the disease.
“The latest report being received is that one officer who had attended the just concluded courses at Kiganjo main campus has tested positive to Covid-19. It has now been directed that all officers who came from the same institution recently to be put under self-quarantine,” said part of a memo sent to all police commanders dated April 9.
Health CAS Rashid Aman, while issuing the daily updates on Friday, June 19, stated that 117 people tested positive from 3043 samples tested bringing the total number of cases to 4,374 and the number of samples tested to 433,541.
Nairobi recorded 51 cases with a distribution of Kibra (8), Langata (8), Makadara (6), Dagoretti North (6), Kamukunji (4), Embakasi East (4), Embakasi North (3), Embakasi South (3), Mathare (2), Ruaraka (2), Embakasi Central (2), Embakasi West (1), Starehe (1) and Kasarani (1).
