Mr Joseph Njenga Chege, a nursing officer at the Mwea Mission Hospital, died at the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital where he had been transferred after his condition deteriorated.
Dr Andrew Suleh, who is a former Kenya Medical Association (KMA) chairman and a renal physician, said that the country needs to boost its response capacity as the number of cases continues to increase.
A nurse and a member of county assembly have become the latest high-profile Kenyans to succumb to the coronavirus.
Mr Joseph Njenga Chege, a nursing officer at the Mwea Mission Hospital, died at the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH) where he had been transferred after his condition deteriorated. In Kisii, Kiamokama MCA Kennedy Mainya is said to have died of respiratory complications at the Oasis Hospital in Kisii Town.
