Kenya health officials have urged citizens to wear masks in all indoor public settings as the country approaches high-risk COVID-19 alert status. Dr. Francis Kuria, the Director of Public Health at the Ministry of Health, said the country’s positivity rate has been on a rise since the start of May hitting a high of 5.6 percent and averaging at 3.3 percent weekly reported The East African. “We are urging Kenyans to have their masks on. We are worried that the Covid-19 numbers are going up,” Dr. Kuria said. On Friday, the ministry said the Covid-19 positivity rate had climbed sharply…
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