ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Public Health (Prevention, Control and Supression of Covid-19) Rules
12. Infected area
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
12. Infected area
(1)The Cabinet Secretary may, by notice in the Gazette and in a newspaper with a wide circulation, declare any place to be an infected area, and thereupon regulate and/or prescribe such activities and conduct that may be carried out within the infected area where it is deemed necessary for preventing the spread of or for the eradication of COVID-19.Any person who contravenes the directives issues under rule 12(1) commits an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand shillings, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both.(2)The Cabinet Secretary or any medical officer of health may direct any person residing in a declared infected area to undergo such medical inspection or examination as the Cabinet Secretary or medical officer of health may direct and the person so directed shall have to undergo such inspection.(3)A medical officer of health may keep all or any persons in a declared infected area under observation in any place selected by him or her and under such surveillance as the medical officer of health may consider necessary.(4)Where any person from a declared infected area is placed under observation or surveillance, the period of observation or surveillance shall be fourteen days.