HEALTH WORKERSFirst, Dr Tedros advised that Kenya trains and deploys healthcare workers. Luckily, with the help of the Africa CDC and WHO, Kenya has trained nurses, clinical officers and doctors on responding to Covid-19. Dr Tedros also encouraged the preparation for isolation centres as well as a mechanism for tracing especially at the community level. The most challenging of the six steps, and perhaps where our success lies, is “suppressing and controlling Covid-19”. The desire of the Ministry of Health is to reduce the R0 to less than one.

Source: Daily Nation March 30, 2020 04:41 UTC