Marceline Adhiambo Oloo, Shehu Shagari Awandu, Benson Onyango, Richard Odongo Magwanga, Alfred Ochieng Oluoch, Shirley Lidechi, Erick Mbata Muok, Stephen Munga, Benson Estambale
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Introduction: as a public health policy, the ongoing global coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination drives require continuous tracking, tracing, and testing of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Diagnostic testing is important in virus detection and understanding its spread for timely intervention. This is especially important for low-income settings where the majority of the population remains untested. This is well supported by the fact that of about 9% of the Kenyan population had been tested for the virus.