Machakos county has joined the list of counties where schools have been affected by COVID-19 virus. Fear has seized students and teachers of Muumandu Secondary School, Machakos after a Form Four candidate tested positive for Covid-19.
According to reports, medical officers from emergency services and the County Department of Health removed the male student from the school to his parent’s residence in Kee, Kaiti Sub-county Makueni county for quarantine.
Four teachers from the institution who are believed to have come into touch with the learner have also been directed to proceed on a 2-week self-quarantine. The form 4 candidate is said to have travelled from Mombasa County when learning resumed.
Health staff took samples from the quarantined teachers for Covid-19 analysis as well as all the students who shared classroom and dormitory with the victim.
In a confidential letter written by the school principal to the county director of education, the school was fully fumigated and the rest of the learners and non-teaching staff were guided through a two-day sensitization on Covid-19 health protocols.
Machakos County Health Minister, Ancent Kituku confirmed the occurrence saying that the school is currently under control and affirmed to parents, learners and teachers that the administration has put in place measures to check such cases.
“We want to assure the public that everything is in control and reassure the parents that the teachers and students have been taken good care of. We have also taken measures to carry out contact tracing,” Dr Kituku said in an interview with THE STANDARD.
This comes days after two schools in Mombasa, one school in Kakamega and another one school in Nandi Counties reported COVID-19 cases.
