(Bloomberg) -- Kenya is set to hire 6,000 health workers to help fight the coronavirus outbreak, according to Health Secretary Mutahi Kagwe.
Of these, 5,000 will be deployed to counties, and 1,000 will remain at the national hospitals, Kagwe said at a media briefing on Thursday. “We hope to complete” the hiring “by Wednesday next week,” Kagwe said.
Kenya has confirmed 110 Covid-19 cases and three deaths.
The East African country is enforcing a curfew as part of measures to reduce the risk of contagion amid fears that Covid-19 patients will overrun its health system. The government also released 3,837 prisoners to decongest correctional facilities.
