Mombasa County Assembly has suspended sittings for two weeks after three members reportedly tested positive for COVID-19.

This is according to the  Assembly Deputy Speaker Fadhili Makarani who revealed that this was after members were forced to get tested after it emerged that one of them had contracted the disease.

He further went to state that all members have so far gone into self isolation.

However, word has it that the number of those who have tested positive for the virus is more than five.

Meanwhile two nurses from the county have succumbed to the COVID-19 virus.

Addressing members of the press in Mombasa, Kenya National Union of Nurses Secretary General Mombasa branch Peter Maroko said that six more nurses have been infected with the virus in the last two weeks.

According to Maroko the county is now recording the highest number of nurses being infected with the virus blaming the county government for failing to address their issues including allowances, promotion, payment of salary on time and submission of state statutory redacted from their salaries, threatening  to issue a strike notice

"In the last two weeks we have buried a colleague who succumbed to the COVID-19 virus and yesterday we also lost another nurse who was receiving treatment at a private facility" said Maroko