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    "id": 1026602,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1026602/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I support. We are for the first time altering this Calendar because of the COVID-19 pandemic. I think we need to speak, as leaders, to the people of Kenya that COVID-19 has now reached our community level; the transmission is now at the community level. We are talking about close to 1,000 cases per day. We are heading that route. We are now reaching close to 20,000 COVID-19 cases in our country. Some counties have reported over 30 per cent infection rates. Our public and private hospitals are overwhelmed. It is a reality. We are being told by the Ministry of Health that only five counties have adequate isolation centres. We are talking of very few Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds. You saw yesterday His Excellency the President raising very serious alarming rates. So we must speak to the people that even this House is under obligation – apart from representing the people, to protect ourselves, staff of Parliament and the people of Kenya. The Ministry of Health must change their narrative. They cannot continue steering a ship towards the direction where the hurricane is building and expect a different result. They need to change the coordinates. The Ministry of Health, in my honest opinion, is telling us that there is a"
}