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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to support this Motion. It is important for us to adjourn because this third wave is severe and serious. Every day, we are being given statistics of people who have passed on. We take it as statistics, but those are fathers, mothers, children, leaders or health workers that the country has lost. When the first wave was here, we were serious in terms of observing the protocols and the lockdowns. That time much of the cases were within the big towns. Right now, it is in the villages and as most of my colleagues have reported, in the villages people had not imagined that COVID-19 is there. As somebody said, the issues of vaccination should be taken as a matter of seriousness so that we can save our people. We have had many cases where people are afraid to take this vaccination. Since we have been told the leadership can take it, this should have been taken on live television to encourage our people to take up the vaccination. We have opened most of the areas because of economic meltdown. As our President said earlier on, last year we did a lot in saving lives and protecting ourselves. We ignored much of the issues that were going on elsewhere. We were able to reduce the spread of COVID-19 to two per cent. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we decided to open up because of the economic meltdown, the rate of infection has increased. What is happening right now is beyond comprehension. I wish this alteration of the Senate calendar included a hybrid system that we have used in various occasions. If we have hybrid sittings once in a while, the Members who are not be able to come to the House physically, can join in from wherever they are. Most of our Members who are 58 years old and above can join and take part in the proceedings of the House from wherever they are. We have succeeded in handling a lot of Committee meetings through the Zoom platform so the same can be applied to the Plenary sitting. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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