Siaya County Education executive committee member Mary Olute was on Wednesday evening flown to Nairobi for specialized treatment after she tested positive for Covid-19.
The Daily Nation reports Ms Olute was moved to Bondo Sub-county Hospital on Tuesday from her home where she had been isolated.
Sources told the Nation that a team of doctors were dedicated to her at the county hospital.
She was transferred to Nairobi after she suffered a repeated bout of cough.
Her transfer came just a day after Governor Cornell Rasanga’s office barred all his staff from meeting him face-to-face after Ms Olute tested positive.
The governor’s office instructed all county executives to work from home and conduct their departmental meetings virtually.
Ms Olute is the first reported case of Covid-19 in Mr Rasanga’s cabinet.
By Wednesday, Siaya had confirmed 55 Covid-19 cases.
The county director of communication Auscar Wambiya confirmed that Ms Olute tested positive for Covid-19 but declined to comment further on her condition.
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“Because of privacy of the patient and her family I am not able to discuss the matter,” he said.
In Siaya, the department of water offices had earlier been closed after a driver tested positive.
Bondo Law Courts has scaled down its operations and is considering shutting down after five police officers tested positive, three from Bondo police station where an OCPD succumbed to Covid-19 on Monday last week. They are in isolation.
Siaya’s Covid-19 ill-preparedness has put its general performance under scrutiny. While addressing the nation, The President Uhuru Kenyatta cited Siaya and Busia counties, whose failure to avail more beds in isolation centres reflected the general slow emergency preparations for a full-blown Covid-19 scenario. Uhuru said Siaya had a paltry 10 beds in its Covid-19 isolation, nine of which were already occupied with patients.
