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    "id": 1006083,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1006083/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Murang’a CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sabina Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "We also have community and population based testing. Clusters of severe respiratory illness or death identified through ongoing community event based surveillance, those identified in the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) platform and geographical hotspots are tested. Hon. Speaker, on the status of testing of all Kenya’s border points, the current guidelines for the border points dictate that all truckers are required to be in possession of COVID-19 negative attestation letters having been tested at least 48 hours before beginning their journey. However, most truck drivers present themselves at the border points without the document necessitating sample collection to be conducted at this point. This has resulted in huge traffic snarl ups at the major border points. To avert this, teams have been deployed in the most affected areas like Busia County border to ease the situation. Their task has been to collect samples and take them to the regional labs for processing in liaison with the county governments. Traffic is now flowing normally at the Busia and Malaba borders. So far, over 20,000 tests have been carried out and drivers cleared to cross the borders on all Kenyan border crossings. Sample collection is still ongoing in the designated points of entry. Hon. Speaker, as I mentioned earlier, I will be tabling the laboratories available in Kenya and money that has been allocated by the national Government. Next week, we will table the counties and the amounts they have received. Today, my Committee received a letter from Hon. Jude Njomo. We will investigate a case where a test was carried out and the wrong test result given. Since Jude Njomo is our colleague, we will be investigating the matter where they were given the wrong test result."
}