#Covid19Update
"If we continue to behave nomarreh, this disease will treat us abnommarreh." ~ Kenyan proverb
A mere days before COVID-19 arrived in Kenya, Foreign Affairs PS Ambassador Macharia Kamau termed as “short-sighted, careless and xenophobic” those Kenyans who raised red flags about the government’s handling of the pandemic. He hit out at critics saying coronavirus is “not the first global epidemic and is not the most deadly". This was after a Southern China Airline arrived with 239 passengers in Nairobi from Guangzhou – the then second-most affected region in China – triggering an immediate uproar from Kenyans.
So I'll just leave this here and you do with it as you will.
A principal secretary who tested positive for COVID-19 has questioned the country’s management of the pandemic and wondered what the billions spent so far have achieved.
Foreign Affairs PS Ambassador Macharia Kamau tested positive for the virus last week and was forced to hand over his duties to political and diplomatic secretary Ambassador Tom Amollo.
But Macharia regretted that "the government’s contact tracing has collapsed, there is no access to proper care and even more tragic is that there is no medical insurance cover for the virus. For all the billions that have been spent on this campaign, it’s hard to imagine that at the point of contact where the disease actually happens, there is no system to make sure that we have access to proper care and no proper contact tracing is actually done to keep track of those who are not well or maybe infecting others,” Macharia said in a WhatsApp group of top government officials, seen by the Star. "More tragic is that there is no medical insurance cover for the virus," he added.
Macharia said after he tested positive, he quickly informed his contacts about his condition, but to his surprise, none of them have been contacted by the government.
“I have done my own contact tracing and I have informed all the people who came in contact with me in the 10 days prior to my test."
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