President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged Kenyans to be self responsible and keep the health directives on Covid-19 infection prevention, terming the current situation as being in a war. Kenya has so far recorded 17,975 cases, as of Monday evening. “We must hold each other accountable in the fight against the spread of Covid-19,” he said. He was speaking during a Covid-19 state address shortly after meeting Governors and other leaders.
45 out of 47 Counties have so far recorded Coronavirus cases, with Baringo County the latest to be affected. Kenya’s fatality rate is at 1.6%, below the global rate of around 5%, and President Kenyatta has noted a false sense of security and complacency, “The low death rate from Covid-19 is giving Kenyans a false sense of comfort.” He said some nations have lacked space to bury people who’ve succumbed to the virus due to the large number of casualties and this shouldn’t be the case in Kenya.
He said every person must play his or her part wherever they are to ensure the disease is kept at bay, “I must remind Kenyans that the police cannot police the morality of its citizens. We can’t have a policeman in every street, village or house to impose the rules.” He lauded the progress made by Counties in meeting the set Covid-19 management targets, adding that 70% of Counties have attained the targets, “This is not a competition between political groupings or Counties, on who is doing better than the other, this is a war that we shall either drown together or hold each other up.”