TOPSHOT - A doctor and laboratory specialists get ready with protective gears before visiting the ward for quarantined people who had close contacts with the first Kenyan patient of the COVID-19 at the Infectious Disease Unit of Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 15, 2020, during the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus. - Kenya announced on March 13, 2020, the first confirmed case of coronavirus in East Africa, as the region so far unscathed by the global pandemic scaled up emergency measures to contain its spread. A 27-year-old Kenyan woman tested positive for the virus on March 12 in Nairobi, a week after returning from the United States via London. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)