Three local researchers — Industrial chemist Mr. Donatus Njoroge, IT expert Gideon Kamau, and Physician Scientist Dr. Jesse Gitaka — have developed a Covid-19 tracing system dubbed ‘KoviTrace’ that provides access to all the persons that a patient came into close contact with in the last 14 days.
Mount Kenya University and Japan –based Osaka City University are jointly utilizing a KSh.450 million grant from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) towards malaria elimination research in Homabay County in Kenya.