Five Kenyans died of Covid-19 related complications in the United States in the last month, Foreign Affairs PS Macharia Kamau said on Tuesday.
Macharia held that the five had underlying health conditions and did not die “necessarily of Covid-19”.
The PS further added that none of the about 3000 Kenyans in China had died of the disease.
He said a Kenyan was admitted in an intensive care unit in Sweden with the highly-contagious virus.
Also, Macharia said the country had lost Ruth Anyango Ogonda, an administrative attaché at Kenya’s Consulate-General in Los Angeles, who died on April 10.
“She had high-blood pressure and difficulty in breathing,” PS Macharia said, “We are waiting for the autopsy to be able to determine the cause of death.”
Ms Anyango is survived by two children of 25 and 6 years old.
Evictions in China
On Africans being discriminated against in Guangzhou, China even as the country sought to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus:
He said landlords were only ejecting those living in crowded apartments to enforce social distancing orders.
“Some of the landlords felt compelled to respond in the way in which they did, which was unfortunate. This took a turn and it became a racial thing. It was unfortunate,” he said.
The PS added that they had received assurance from the Chinese government that the situation was under control and the situation would not repeat itself.
This story is being updated.
