"Mailu orders closure of Jacaranda, San Valencia hotels as cholera kills four"

Health [Cabinet Secretary] Cleopa Mailu has ordered immediate closure of Jacaranda and San Valencia hotels following a cholera outbreak that has killed four in Nairobi. At least 79 people with confirmed cases of cholera are being treated in various Nairobi hospitals and authorities are setting up 10 more treatment centres to cope with the outbreak, Mailu told a news conference..."We have so far closed two hotels...Jacaranda and San Valencia in Nairobi...and we shall continue to do so if there is evidence of risk to the public," he said on Wednesday after visiting some of the patients.

...The government had ordered the immediate testing of about half a million people in the food handling business in the next 21 days...On Tuesday, the Health ministry cancelled the medical certificates of all food handlers to contain the cholera outbreak that has hit Nairobi...Medical services director Jackson Kioko on Monday directed all county health departments to conduct fresh medical examinations before issuing any other certificates.