[Collins Oduor, Standard]Kisumu County has recorded a surge in malaria cases with most patients also testing positive for Covid-19 since the “double mutant” Indian variant was reported there a couple of months ago. David Okeyo, the Medical Superintendent at Kombewa Hospital, said the facility attends to between 20 and 50 children with malaria and at least 10 suffer from severe malaria every day. The situation is the same at the Ahero county hospital where 412 malaria cases were reported last month from 247 in April with 23 patients admitted with severe Malaria from 16 in April. At Lumumba hospital, an average of 40 malaria cases are reported daily, majority of them children under 10 years. The 12-month study titled MalCov targets 354 patients with at least 71 having co-infection of both Malaria and Covid-19.

Source: Standard Digital June 05, 2021 14:11 UTC