Why Kenya’s effective contact tracing could help prevent Ebola outbreak
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The Ministry of Health says it has surpassed global standards for contact tracing, achieving a 97 per cent success rate in tracking people who came into contact with patient zero or their relatives.
Out of the 130 contacts listed, 128 (98.5%) have been traced and are in quarantine. This is above the global contact tracing benchmark of 85% required to break the chain of transmission of the disease.
The government says intensive efforts are ongoing to trace and quarantine the two remaining contacts