 Good afternoon and thank you for joining us on Y254. What we just saw there is a briefing, a press briefing from Afia House by the Health Chief Administrative Secretary, Dr. Masi Mwangagi. She has already talked about added measures that are going to be taken to make sure that we all continue fighting against COVID-19. Okay, so in the last 24 hours she has said that they have tested 305 people with seven new cases tested positive, which now brings the total number of cases in the country at 179. So to break that down, we have among us to hold the seven Kenyans, all of them are Kenyans, but with the history of traveling with one who has recently been in Congo, one in the UK and two in the United States of America. These cases are distributed in three different counties in the country where we have five cases in Nairobi. We have one case in Mombasa and we have one case in Wasingishu. Also we have four of the cases are female and three are male. The measures that the Health Chief Administrative Secretary has talked about making emphasis on measures that have been given there before, which is making sure that we are washing our hands, sanitizing or continue practicing social distancing. She has also talked about making sure that also these measures are applied in our prisons. They have said that they are also going to be setting quarantine measures for health workers to make sure that they are safe and also providing accommodation for the health workers to just in case someone has maybe gets to contract the virus during work, they don't get to go home and take these virus to their families. She has also thanked the media and volunteers and her people involved in spreading the messages of hope as far as COVID-19 is concerned. She has talked about people with unused oxygen cylinders to provide them for patients who may require oxygen during this difficult time. She has talked about private health facilities and she has talked about private health facilities sharing their results with the Ministry of Health. Okay, so in the measures given today, these are the new measures and these are directed towards salons and barbershops that all salon operators should wear face masks. You should make sure that if you are operating a salon or a barber, you will make sure that your salon has hand sanitizers, make sure that you are practicing social distancing and they have said that they are going to be coming up with more measures to make sure that in such spaces as the salon and the barbers people are also protected as they continue with their work. She has broken down the number of cases in the country based on the ages which have been affected. We have three cases below the age of 15 years. We have 49 cases between the age of 15 to 29. We have 114 cases between the age of 30 to 59. We have that in cases the age of 60. She has said that as you can see in these numbers, the concentration where the concentration lies mostly is between 15 to 59 where we have 114 and 49 cases. They have said that they are going to be having more additional measures to make sure that everything that is needed to be done to make sure that we can at least control that is the spread of the virus is going to be done by the government. And also there is some good news with one patient who was under critical care who has been taken off ventilation support and moved to general ward. There are two additional cases that have been discharged in the last 24 hours after recovery. She has also said that 2005 persons have been monitored under contact tracing and they are going to be developing guidelines for home based healthcare. So she has also said that there will be given more information on the state of different equipments i.e. the ICU beds and ventilators on the next briefing. This is based on one of the issues talked about people who have oxygen cylinders that are not being used. People are now wondering like what is going to be done if we are getting to the point where we are asking people to give these to provide these products or to provide these some of the equipments that are going to be needed but she has said that they are going to be giving a breakdown of all that when as they give the briefing which is probably expectant to be done tomorrow. She has also said that people should really adhere to every measure that has been be given by the government i.e. in terms of travelling, in terms of practicing social distancing, in making sure that we also sharing information that is very right and true on our social media platforms and also we have had the acting director of acting director of the Ministry of Health come then just answer some questions that were being asked by journalists and just creating emphasis on making sure that every person is up to date and up to speed on everything regarding COVID-19. Okay, so I am getting more information that other people that have been that have been tested today and tested positive for the COVID-19 have already been moved to quarantine and there are other people that are in isolation and people that are also in quarantine are still continuing to take more tests and they hope that they are going to manage to do more tests in the coming days. That is the updates and that is what the ELL chief administrative secretary that is Dr. Masi Mongangi has just finished briefing the people at Afia House or we can tell you today from Y254 is let us continue washing our hands at least 20 seconds with running water let us use sanitizers and remember you only get to use a sanitizer if you are in a place where you cannot assess water let us continue practicing social distance if you have no business in town or in the marketplace please make sure that you stay at home because staying at home does not only protect you but it also protects your loved ones and for us to fight and come out of these victorias then we all need to make sure that we are following every directive that has been given that is all we hand for you have yourselves a very good evening the disease can be prevented by regularly washing hands with soap and running water avoid close contact with people who have flu-like symptoms avoid handshake hugs and kissing also protect yourself by covering your mouth or nose using a disposable tissue while coughing or sneezing if you experienced these symptoms and you had traveled or been in contact to the person from a country reporting COVID-19 you should isolate yourself for 14 days and seek immediate medical attention or report to the nearest health center this message has been brought to you by the government of Kenya and its partners for accurate information on COVID-19 dial star 719 hush or call 719 follow us on twitter at moh underscore Kenya at spoksparson gok at who