{"id":5722,"date":"2020-03-13T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T10:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2020-03-13T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T10:42:26","slug":"kenya-confirms-first-case-of-coronavirus-in-east-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5722","title":{"rendered":"Kenya confirms first case of coronavirus in East Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Mutahi-Kagwe.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption> <em>Kenya\u2019s Minister of Health Mutahi Kagwe<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Kenya announced its first confirmed case of coronavirus on Friday, saying a 27 years old Kenyan woman who returned from the United States tested positive for the illness in Nairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to inform you that the Ministry of Health has confirmed the first coronavirus case in Kenya,\u201d Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe case is a Kenyan citizen who travelled back to Nairobi, returning from the United States of America via London, United Kingdom, on March 5, 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman\u2019s temperature had returned to normal and she was stable and recovering in isolation, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the first confirmed case of the new coronavirus in the East African region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya announced its first confirmed case of coronavirus on Friday, saying a 27 years old Kenyan woman who returned from the United States tested positive for the illness in Nairobi. \u201cI want to inform you that the Ministry of Health has confirmed the first coronavirus case in Kenya,\u201d Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe told reporters. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kenya confirms first case of coronavirus in East Africa &raquo; 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