Investigation and successful control of a outbreak at a tertiary health care facility in Kenya.

Objectives: This study aimed to conduct an epidemiological and genomic investigation of a hospital outbreak of , and implement measures for its control.

Methods: We collected demographic and clinical data from medical records of patients with from January 2017 to June 2019 after identifying increased cases in April 2019. Point-prevalence surveys for colonisation were conducted in the critical care units (CCU).

Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in Kenya: a multicentre cohort study.

Objectives: To assess outcomes of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 and to determine the predictors of mortality.

Setting: This study was conducted in six facilities, which included both government and privately run secondary and tertiary level facilities in the central and coastal regions of Kenya.

Participants: We enrolled 787 reverse transcriptase-PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV2-infected persons.