Adapting Longstanding Public Health Collaborations between Government of Kenya and CDC Kenya in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020–2021
Amy Herman-Roloff
, Rashid Aman, Taraz Samandari, Kadondi Kasera, Gideon O. Emukule, Patrick Amoth, Tai-Ho Chen, Jackton Kisivuli, Herman Weyenga, Elizabeth Hunsperger, Clayton Onyango, Bonventure Juma, Peninah Munyua, Daniel Wako, Victor Akelo, Davies Kimanga, Linus Ndegwa, Ahmed Abade Mohamed, Peter Okello, Samuel Kariuki, Kevin M. De Cock, Marc Bulterys, and
CDC-Kenya COVID-19 Response Team
Author affiliations: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Nairobi and Kisumu, Kenya (A. Herman-Roloff, T. Samandari, G. Emukule, T.-H. Chen, H. Weyenga, E. Hunsperger, C. Onyango, B. Juma, P. Munyua, D. Wako, V. Akelo, D. Kimanga, L. Ndegwa, K.M. De Cock, M. Bulterys); Ministry of Health, Nairobi (R. Aman, K. Kasera, P. Amoth); Kenya Prisons Service, Nairobi (J. Kisivuli, P. Okello); Africa Field Epidemiology Network, Nairobi (A.A. Mohamed); Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi (S. Kariuki)
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Figure 3. Government applied nonpharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya from February 2020 through November 2021 in a review of longstanding public health collaborations between Government of Kenya and CDC Kenya in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Examples of nonpharmaceutical interventions utilized in Kenya include traveler quarantine, restrictions on mass gathering, school closures, mask mandates, curfews, and phased lifting of restrictions in response to case levels. The graph indicates the number of weekly cases and the period in which the specific nonpharmaceutical and pharmaceutical interventions were implemented.
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