Curfew breakers will no longer be accommodated at the usual government quarantine facilities.
Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rashid Aman on Sunday May 3, 2020 while giving the daily Covid-19 briefings at Afya House said that those arrested defying curfew while now be taken to different centres, that meet social distancing rule.
CAS Aman said that the Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai had been directed to designate a curfew breakers’ holding place, to avoid putting the curfew breakers together with those that have been quarantined after showing the signs of Covid-19.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe had earlier announced that those found defying curfew are assumed to have been exposed, thus the need to get quarantined.
CAS Aman’s announced on directing IG Mutyambai to designate a holding place for curfew breakers comes after an outcry from Kenyans.
Kenyans had earlier on caused an uproar, decrying the poor conditions that curfew breakers normally get exposed to.
Speculations have it that those arrested are normally kept in the same rooms with suspected Covid-19 patients, without even considering the social distancing rules.
Those arrested are however, expected to cater for their own accommodation bills, after completing the 14 days of quarantine, and completing the two mandatory Covid-19 tests.
