{"id":121558,"date":"2021-05-06T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T03:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121558"},"modified":"2021-05-06T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T03:04:49","slug":"covid-19-kenya-confirms-five-cases-of-indian-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121558","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Kenya confirms five cases of Indian variant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Kenya-confirms-five-cases-of-Indian-variant-of-COVID-19-1251952?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/381\/38114331.295.jpg\" alt=\"The five cases are all Indian nationals who have since been quarantined\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>The five cases are all Indian nationals who have since been quarantined<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NAIROBI, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Kenya confirmed that it has detected five cases of the Indian\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3454\">COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0variant.<br><br>Ministry of Health acting Director-General Dr. Patrick Amoth said that the five cases are all Indian nationals, who arrived in Kisumu on Thursday last week. They are all currently quarantined.<br><br>He said this on a day when Kenya recorded 489 new\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3454\">COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0cases, bring the total number of cases in the country to 161,393.<br><br>20 deaths have also been reported in the last 24 hours. The cumulative number of fatalities in the country is now at 2,825.<br><br>A total of 900,459 persons have so far been vaccinated against\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3454\">COVID-19<\/a>. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five cases are all Indian nationals who have since been quarantined NAIROBI, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Kenya confirmed that it has detected five cases of the Indian\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0variant. Ministry of Health acting Director-General Dr. Patrick Amoth said that the five cases are all Indian nationals, who arrived in Kisumu on Thursday last week. They are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121558"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}