{"id":699,"date":"2026-10-08T17:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=699"},"modified":"2026-10-08T17:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:54:30","slug":"kenya-steps-up-ebola-contact-tracing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Kenya steps up Ebola contact tracing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya is intensifying measures to prevent the spread of Ebola after confirming its first imported case of the disease. The patient was a Kenyan citizen who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and travelled through Uganda before arriving in Nairobi. He later died after being admitted and isolated at Nairobi Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of Health says 57 people have been identified as contacts linked to the patient. Ten of them have already been traced and placed under quarantine, while health authorities continue efforts to locate the remaining contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health officials have urged Kenyans to remain calm and rely on official information. The government says Kenya does not currently have an Ebola outbreak, but surveillance at points of entry and preparedness at health facilities have been strengthened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya is intensifying measures to prevent the spread of Ebola after confirming its first imported case of the disease. The patient was a Kenyan citizen who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and travelled through Uganda before arriving in Nairobi. He later died after being admitted and isolated at Nairobi Hospital. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangazadital.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}