“Thousands of learners failed to show up in class when schools partially reopened last month, raising fears of massive dropouts caused by the prolonged closure of learning institutions. Many of the learners are reported to have been forced out of school by teenage pregnancies, early marriages and child labour.”
“Already the designated national COVID-19 hospitals are overflowing with both ailing and asymptomatic patients… the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral, and Research Hospital (KUTRRH), a 300-bed hospital, which had been transformed to manage Covid-19 patients had only three beds left, while both Infectious Disease Units at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and Mbagathi Hospital unit under KNH, were already full to capacity.”
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