A Kenyan driver claimed to have tested positive for Covid-19 after ferrying ‘fake’ mourners carrying an empty coffin from Nairobi to Homa Bay County has given his side of the story.
Last Saturday, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said the driver and his group carried an empty coffin and forged documents claiming they were headed to a burial in order to fool police officers into allowing them to leave Nairobi.
This was after the government banned the movement of people in and out of Nairobi metropolitan area to curb the spread of Covid-19 disease.
Kagwe said the group succeeded in their mission to leave Nairobi but they were intercepted by law enforcement officers in Homa Bay County and were found to be carrying an empty casket.
“They were immediately put in quarantine and today, I can confirm, that the driver is positive. This person has now taken the disease to Homa Bay for very selfish reasons,” said Kagwe.
The said driver, identified only as Kevin, has released a video online disputing claims by CS Kagwe that he tested positive for the virus.
The driver is speaking out. Honesty is key in every instance. We aren't honest from the start.
The govt is doing something else. They aren’t quarantining the sick. They are doing something else.
Handle funeral cases carefully. It will affect people in the near future pic.twitter.com/zOQKf4011n
— Robert Alai (@RobertAlai) April 20, 2020
“I’m not sick, I’m now in the isolation center and up to now, I have not received any medication, if it is true that I’m sick, why are they not treating me?” Kevin poses in the video.
Kevin and his family members have also denied claims that their kin faked the burial plans. He is presently in quarantine at Malela, Ndhiwa in Homa Bay county.
But speaking on Citizen TV, Ministry of Health Director-General Patrick Amoth said that Kevin is asymptomatic.
“Kelvin is our case number 257. He was tested at KEMRI, Kisumu and his results came back positive for covid-19. He is one of those people who are asymptomatic but test positive, and that forms about 56% of the total number of people who we have tested they have turned positive,” said Amoth.
The dude is asymptomatic.
The dude is asymptomatic.
He may be asymptotic, or…
He may be asymptotic, or whatever, but he’s definitely sick in the head.
Mr. Kevin says that he doesn…
Mr. Kevin says that he doesn’t have the Virus and his kin atests to that. A blogger advices that our goverment should handle funeral cases seriously. Our medics claim asymptomaticism. The Qs here are:-
1. Why did this guy take all the trouble faking funeral docs, buying a casket, fueling and driving frm Nrb To Homa Bay?
2. What other tests did he and his kin take to discredit KEMRI’s results?
3. Whose funeral is in reference with an empty coffin?
4 On the claim that the govrnment is not isolating the sick, who are the sick if not the likes of Kevin who is not only COVID-19+ but asymtomatically a mental case?
5. On the asertion that this Kevin did not fake burial plans, where is the body?
If Kevin, his dudes and kin are righ then they have a body somewhere.
You may not be sick but you…
You may not be sick but you have the virus to stop you from infecting others you must quarantine
I never trust kenya…
I never trust kenya government but on this dude is lying. His brother went to the media and stated the victim wife live in dadora but on video his family uko uchagu. What sense does it to travel to homabay with empty coffin