Kenya Medical Association (KMA) president, Were Onyino, warns against the opening of schools. Medics in the country are warning against the decision of reopening schools. The testing levels in the country is still low. The data available as per now concerning covid-19, is not enough to allow learners to go back to school and resume on learning.
KMA also adds the fact that the country’s economy is yet to be open including the partial lockdown, bars, clubs, and full services in hotels and restaurants. Reviving the economy should be the choice number one and reopening of learning institutions should be the last option.
The medics say that the reason the schools were closed was to reduce the social interactions among students. This to provide social distancing so as to lower the risk of transmission of the Covid-19 virus. There was an urge of the country to be cautious as the schools are reopened. Phased reopening of the schools ,starting with the form fours and the class eights. Phased reopening of institutions should provide ample observations and thus more measures can be put into place, to curb and prevent transmission of the Covid-19 virus.
KMA adds that for the schools to reopen there should be accessing health services near the school and also the designates health workers in the various institutions of learning.
The country’s low level of testing is providing a blurred picture of the pandemic. It not easy to know whether the curve is really flattening.
The KMA gave recommendations ahead of today’s Covid-19 conference headed by His Excellency the president Uhuru Kenyatta. Every citizen in the country waits on the president to announce the new protocols . The new protocols kept into place ahead of the actual dates of school reopening.