A Chinese national who is working for a firm that is constructing a road North-East of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has been quarantined as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19 outbreak.
There is no indication yet whether the unnamed man, who works for state-owned Chinese engineering company, Sinohydro Corporation, has contracted the virus.
He has been isolated at the Mutomo campsite in Kitui County and is being served food through the window, according to the daily nation newspaper.
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The road constructing firm has sent a letter to the local county government confirming that one of its staff has been quarantined at the camp after arriving in the East African country on Sunday from China’s North-Eastern Hebei province.
Kenya’s main airport, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, has been conducting health screenings on passengers arriving from Mainland China.
A local health officer, Richard Muthoka, has been quoted by the star newspaper as saying that a team of health workers was on Monday locked out of the company’s camp. They had been sent there to examine the man.
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A police team is being mobilised to accompany them for a second visit.
The firm’s project manager, Zheng Fuchun, says “any symptoms similar to COVID-19 or abnormal situation will be reported to county health office and the Chinese embassy immediately following the right procedures”.
