Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri)

Blow to Covid-19 fight as State abandons testing

Reading Time: 4 minutes The war against the Covid-19 pandemic has suffered a major blow after the government quietly closed 20 centres across the […]

Mystery of PS, MP quarantined for 60 days

Reading Time: 3 minutes A Principal Secretary, a senior Member of Parliament and two judges are among several high-ranking Kenyans who have been forced […]

Disaster alert as 12 die of coronavirus in single day

Reading Time: 4 minutes George Kebaso, Bernard Gitau and Yusuf Masibo The country was yesterday staring at a health disaster after it suffered a […]

Kemri suspends free Covid-19 testing

Reading Time: 3 minutes Kenyans who are eager to know their coronavirus status will have to dig deeper into their pockets to have their […]

Kemri boss firing illegal, says Senate

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hillary Mageka  @hillarymageka The sacking of Joel Lutomiah as the director of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) Centre for Virus […]

Microbiologist explains Corona test variances

Reading Time: 3 minutes A top researcher on viruses has come out to explain the variances of results of Covid-19 tests released by the […]

Mombasa mass testing halted due to shortage of kits

Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuben Mwambingu @reubenmwambingu Shortage of Covid-19 testing reagents has brought community mass testing in Mombasa county to a halt, resulting in […]

Crisis as testing kits run out, backlog of samples piles up

Reading Time: 4 minutes George Kebaso @Morarak Kenya now faces a crisis in its handling  of coronavirus owing to a shortage of the automated […]

Kemri traces Kenya Coronavirus strain DNA

Reading Time: 3 minutes A research by Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) has established that at least nine SARS-CoV-2 were imported into the country […]

Kemri’s detection tool to boost Corona contact-tracing efforts

Reading Time: 2 minutes Researchers at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) Wellcome Trust in Kilifi have developed an immunological assay—a tool used to […]