Amref Health Africa Global CEO Githinji Gitahi has urged the Kenyan Government to lift the dusk to dawn curfew.
Mr Gitahi mentions that the State should now move to the recovery phase and focus on vaccinating the population.
"Across Africa, curfews helped save lives & protect Health Systems from the pandemic because while virus behaviour is same night & day, human behaviour is not!
"With widespread contact, #curfew should shift to tactical, localised time-bound tool in a surge Governments now need to move to the Recovery Phase focusing on Large Scale #COVID19 vaccination & building resilient health systems urgently - #curfew should now move from a long term strategy to a short term tactical localised time-bound tool during a surge of infections," part of the statement reads.
The Amref CEO mentions that their many reasons to lif the curfew including citing the job losses affecting millions of Kenyans.
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"Peoples jobs & economy need to be preserved, Police have used curfew enforcement for brutality & extortion, Compliance has waned - tactical time-bound curfews are more likely to be enforceable and Finally the pandemic phase demands so," he states.
Mr Gitahi emphasizes the need to shift attention to vaccinating the population faster.
"Governments should ensure adequate oxygen, (Kenya’s oxygen capacity has gone up 3-fold!!), health workers, financing as well as large scale timely vaccination & robust epidemiological data to decide when short term #curfews are needed as circuit breakers," the Amref CEO says.
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