Let’ s give a thought to healthcare workers

There has not been a time in history when the entire world was riveted on a single subject like coronavirus today. Because of the incubation period of 14 days, the invisible nature of the virus and the way it is spread by proximity to infected persons and touching infected surfaces, it is highly contagious and no one knows where it will strike next. World wars have had higher casualties but their effect has been limited largely to the theatre of war while the Spanish Flu was limited to certain geographic locations as with SARS and MERS.

As at the time of writing this piece on Wednesday (April 1, 2020) there are a total of 859,032 confirmed coronavirus infections and 42,322 deaths worldwide. Figures for Kenya stand at 59 confirmed cases and 1 dead.