• Health Cabinet Secretary says the youth should become part of the solution, stop traveling upcountry and organize themselves to engage in war on Covid-19 fight
• Notes that if the young people become the center of this fight, Kenya shall make strides
Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has warned Kenyan youth against travelling upcountry, even as challenged them to take up more responsibility in the war against the Covid-19.
“If you go upcountry without knowing whether you’re positive or negative [for coronavirus], there’s a possibility that you’re travelling with the virus to go kill your parents,” CS Kagwe said on Saturday at Afya centre during a Covid-19 situation update.
“It is you who will face your parents as you watch us get sickly and there is nothing you will be able to do. And worse, it is you who will bury us not in small numbers but in very large numbers,” he said.
He said this when he announced four more coronavirus cases in Kenya, which means the country now has 126 Covid-19 patients.
The four new cases are three Kenyans and one Pakistani. A total of 1,781 contacts are being monitored, the CS said.
“The youth should be at the centre of fighting this disease. It is a journey that requires the energy of youth”.
“I ask them to take up the responsibility like previous generations that fought for independence. It is the youth who will suffer in future,” Kagwe said.
The CS retaliated that the youth must be part of the solution.
At the same time, Kagwe passionately appealed to all Kenyans to take up personal responsibility for their own lives and protection from the virus, and warned them against defying the mitigation measures put in place to save their lives.
