Covid-19 a wake-up call to primary healthcare

A Tharaka-Nithi county public health officer fumigating a market in Chuka town on Friday. PHOTO | ALEX NJERU

On March 11, the Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), with the first case of the virus reported in Kenya by the Ministry of Health two days later.

Many other African countries have also reported cases. But even as the Kenyan government races against time to contain the pandemic, many Kenyans do not seem to take it seriously.

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