The Ministry of Health on Thursday, October 22, broke its silence latest wave of COVID-19 rising cases in a number of institutions.
While addressing the journalists, Health CAS Mercy Mwangangi stated that there is no cause of alarm on the rising COVID-19.
She urged the parents to stay calm because it was expected that some of the students in the learning institutions would contract the corona virus.
She assured the parents that Ministry of Health had sent out a number of doctors to the affected schools to determine the severity of the cases.
“We have a team of doctors that we have sent to the ministry of education and after assessment, we will be able to know the measures that can be put in place to ensure that the issue is under control,” said Mwangangi.
She was speaking in light of the two schools in Mombasa, Star of the Sea High School and Tononoka High School, that were shut down after teacher contracted COVID-19 .
Education CAS Zack Kinuthia reiterated Mwangangi’s words saying that the Ministry of Education has ruled out the mass closure of schools.
The Ministry has planned to deal with the Covid-19 cases on a case by case basis.
“Schools will not be closed based on the cases in Mombasa. If a school is found to be a threat, we close the school or the student is isolated and learning will continue.
“It would be a problem if all the schools reported cases but as the situation stands now, schools will not be closed, however, the ministry will keep observing the trends very closely,” Kinuthia declared.
Further, he assured parents that the government was on high alert and in control of the situation.
“The decision was not rushed. We had six months of deliberations. What we are seeing are signs that can be managed, they are bottlenecks, which are common in any organizational restructuring process,” he added.
Last week, the Ministry of Health announced that it would embark on random testing of Covid-19 in schools.