COVID-19 is quickly spreading across the world and is affecting all and sundry in our society.
In Kenya, the number keeps soaring amid partial lockdown in several counties.
Here are Kenyan celebs who have been tested and confirmed to be positive.
Kilifi Deputy Governor Gideon Saburi
Kilifi DG Saburi has been a controversial COVID-19 patient since the first case was reported in the first days of March 2020 in Kenya.
DG Saburi landed on 9th March but tested negative on 23rd and 26th March in 2020.
He is currently facing charges of carelessly interacting with public and violating self- isolation order.
William Kamoti MP
The Rabai Member of Parliament tested positive after coming into contact with DG Saburi.
After this incident, 38 MPs were forced into self isolation for fears of contracting the disease
Ivy Brenda and Brian
Ivy Brenda and Brian were the first COVID-19 patients in Kenya to fully recover.
The two were shown to the public and had a video call with President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Kenyans would later term the show off as a mere PR show that was poorly planned.
Brenda Ivy Cherotich and Brian Orinda became overnight celebs and there talk could be barely avoid by the nation for nearly to two weeks after their recovery news
James Oyugi Onyango
The late Kenya Ports Authority travelled rom Mombasa to his home in Siaya in about three days.
He later died after arriving at his home. His blood samples tested positive of COVID-19.
James became a subject of national talk in away he was buried and his family given a tough time in giving him a dignified send off.
KQ Pilot Daudi Kibati
This long serving pilot at Kenya Airways seemed to have paid the ultimate price of governments policy to continue flying despite the early warning
He died on April 1st n 2020 a week after his international flight to New York city in bid to evacuate stranded Kenyan in USA.
He became ill on 29th March before his demise.
According to sources at Kenya Airways who requested anonymity, Captain Kibati, who piloted the Dreamliner 787, was tasked with evacuating Kenyans from a city ravaged by the virus under very strict timelines.
The flight had to leave New York City before the lockdown was announced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo began and it had to arrive in Nairobi before March 25.
The former Kenya Airforce pilot aged at 61 years was forced into self quarantine with his first officer at Ole Sereni Hotel in Nairobi
Kibati had also flown to Italy, then it was the world epicenter of COVID-19
His first officer tested positive along with some of the crew members on the New York – Nairobi flight
