The Ministry of Health has been asked to provide daily situation reports on the Ebola outbreak after a two‑day period passed without any public update on new cases, test results or patient progress.

Pathologist Dr Ahmed Kalebi raised the issue, warning that the lack of regular communication could fuel anxiety, speculation and rumours among Kenyans.

Kalebi’s concern follows the last official bulletin issued by Health Director General Dr Patrick Amoth on Monday, 26 October, which noted that 20 contacts had completed the 21‑day monitoring period and returned home healthy.

That update also recorded nine confirmed Ebola cases within a single cluster, two deaths and seven patients who remained stable under treatment.

All 135 identified contacts had been traced, with 98 still under monitoring at the time of the bulletin.

Kalebi questioned whether additional tests had been performed since the last report, whether any new results were negative, and how the seven patients in treatment were faring.

He pointed to the Kenya National Public Health Institute dashboard, which shows 548 people tested, but noted that the dates and activity logs make it hard to tell how current the data are.

While acknowledging that silence could simply mean no new cases and stable patients, Kalebi warned that the communication gap leaves the public, media and health community uncertain and may invite speculation.

He urged the ministry to adopt a predictable daily bulletin, even when figures remain unchanged, citing Uganda and Nigeria’s regular updates as regional examples.

According to Kalebi, a concise daily report should include the number of tests conducted and their outcomes, any new confirmed cases, the condition of patients under treatment, and the count of contacts still being monitored.

He stressed that even a statement of “no new confirmed cases” is newsworthy and should be explicitly recorded in a dated public situation report rather than inferred from silence.