US Boosts Kenya’s Covid-19 Response with Additional Sh50 Million Funding

Kenya is set to receive an additional $500,000 (Sh50 million) from the United States government to boost its fight against the coronavirus disease. 

This brings the total US support for Kenya’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic to $1 million (Sh100 million). 

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) will implement the response in partnership with the Health Ministry as well as county governments.

US Ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter assured that the US will stand with the government and the people of Kenya to ensure the pandemic is defeated.

McCarter said USAID will from this week conduct county-level training sessions on Covid-19 beginning with Kitui, Kajiado, and Kwale counties.

A pool of national and county trainers as well as 700 health workers, lab technicians, and other frontline workers in 33 counties will undergo training through the USAID’s Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services Program.

The training is meant to prepare healthcare workers to handle suspected and confirmed Covid-19 cases.

Kenya has so far recorded 225 Covid-19 cases, 10 fatalities, and 53 recoveries.