Serious concerns in Kenya over the second wave of Covid-19, which promises to be more virulent than the previous one. The number of positive cases now regularly exceeds the bar of one thousand per. Day, while the peak recorded in July during the first wave had not exceeded 960 cases. The Kenyan government could soon adopt stricter measures.
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as reported from Nairobi, Charlotte simonart
As if the first wave in June, July and August had not really been a … Now the new pollutants recorded daily are breaking records. The same goes for the number of deaths: ten every day.
A new fact compared to the first wave, a number of hospitals are saturated, from Mombasa on the coast to Kisumu in the West via Nairobi in the center of the country. The Kenyan medical system is not stopping. Beds, for example, are installed in the parking lot of a large private hospital in the capital. Some encourage hotels to welcome the sick. The United Nations is even preparing to install a medical device on their website.
Looseness
The Kenyan authorities had adopted very strong measures from the start of the pandemic in March last year, such as airspace closures and schools, travel restrictions. But since then, measures have been eased, and Kenyans are increasingly questioning the dangers of the virus. Wearing a mask, social distance … Elemental barrier movements are no longer respected.
Faced with this remark, President Uhuru Kenyatta convened his ministers and county governors on Wednesday, November 4th. On the table: a hardening of measures to curb this new wave.
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