Kenyan expert hails China's bold interventions to curb spread of COVID-19

China's robust interventions that have contributed to the reduction of COVID-19 cases in the country should be emulated across the globe, a Kenyan infectious disease expert said on Tuesday.

Rodney Adam, professor of pathology and medicine and also chairman of the Infection Control Committee at Nairobi's Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), hailed Beijing for taking bold measures to control the epidemic.

"We must admit that China has worked hard in taming the spread of the virus. I do not know if any other country could have done any better with speed as the Chinese have done within the shortest period possible," said Adam.

He spoke at a forum in Nairobi to discuss COVID-19 and its likely impact on Kenya's public health even though no case has been detected in the East Africa's largest economy.

Adam said that speedy rollout of high impact interventions like quarantine, isolation of suspected cases, the establishment of make-shift hospitals and massive public awareness have boosted China's efforts to tame the epidemic that has been declared a public health emergency of global concern.

He said that Kenya and other African countries were in a better position to halt the spread of COVID-19 subject to investments in surveillance tool, diagnostic kits as well as isolation and treatment facilities.