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The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has urged caution over moves by countries to lift lockdown conditions.
In the opening address to today’s coronavirus press conference, he said much was still unknown about the behaviour of the virus, and emphasised that case finding, testing and isolating was still crucial to controlling the outbreak.
“We know that in some countries, #COVID19 cases are doubling every 3 to 4 days.
However, while COVID-19 accelerates very fast, it decelerates much more slowly.
In other words, the way down is much slower than the way up”-@DrTedros #coronavirus
Health authorities in Kenya have reported 11 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, and one death, in the past 24 hours.
The total death toll from the virus now stands at nine in Kenya, which has in total recorded 208 cases, of whom 40 have so far recovered.
COVID-19 UPDATE
✔️674 samples tested
✔️11 new positive cases (All Kenyan)
✔️208 total positive cases
✔️15 new recoveries
✔️Total discharged and recovered stands at 40
✔️1 fatality today
✔️Total fatalities stand at 9#KomeshaCorona pic.twitter.com/QaQeDs9BiR