Authorities tracking down contacts who might have interacted with Juja's first COVID-19 victim

A multi-agency COVID-19 contact tracing team has been dispatched to Juja Farm to track down all those who might have come into contact with a woman who was on Wednesday tested positive of the disease.

Juja Sub-County COVID-19 Response Committee Chairman Charles Muriithi who is also Juja Deputy County Commissioner (DCC) said the team was yet to get the victim's phone number and her residence to help in the tracing exercise.  

The case is the first one in Juja.  

Two other positive cases were intercepted before they gained entry into the sub-county. 

Among them is a business woman coming back from Dubai while the other was a truck driver who was returning from Mombasa.  

The DCC who was outlining the expected outcome of the 8 economical stimulus recently unveiled by President Uhuru Kenyatta, urged local community to seriously adhere to the COVID-19 guidelines.