The East African Community Secretariat is to start carrying out COVID-19 tests using mobile laboratories for all the countries that have been hit by the virus.
The mobile laboratories will include a four-wheel-drive vehicle designed with all the necessary Laboratory and ICT equipment that can conduct a bacterium, virus, or other microorganisms that can cause disease, especially COVID-19 and Ebola.
Four EAC Partner States have so far reported cases of the pandemic with fear that they could even rise higher in the next few days. are Rwanda has 36 confirmed cases, Kenya 17, Tanzania 12 and Uganda 9 cases in a space of 1 day. Burundi and South Sudan are yet to report any cases.
The statement released by the secretariat also says an extraordinary meeting for the sectoral council of ministers of health will convene on Tuesday on a video conference to share ideas on how to collectively manage the stiff epidemic that is slowly but progressively ravaging the East African states.
The statement reads in part that all EAC meetings had been suspended by the time most of these measures were taken by the different countries
“Some EAC Partner States have implemented strategies to address the outbreak at the national level such as the suspension of all face to face meetings, closure of all schools and tertiary training institutions, closure of their respective air space and borders as well as implementation of quarantine on arrival for travelers from high-risk countries due to the outbreak”,
