{"id":1029372,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1029372/?format=json","text_counter":100,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13188,"legal_name":"Getrude Musuruve Inimah","slug":"getrude-musuruve-inimah"},"content":"Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. The issue of COVID-19 is now rampant in the country. As a nation, we have to see how protect our citizens because we have to move on as a country. When it comes to the issue of insurance, it is also important that all insurance companies cover COVID-19 patients. I know that there is one insurance company that came before us that is covering COVID-19 cases. There is need for us, as a Senate, to see that we are supporting more funds to go to insurances that are ready to also cover COVID-19, for the purpose of ensuring that we are flattening the curve. Unless we intervene, as a Senate, many of our people will die because of COVID- 19, and that is not what we want as a country. I hope that this Statement will go to the right Committee, which will do justice to it. I thank Sen. Cheruiyot for coming up with this Statement because of the concern he has for Kenyans."}