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"content": "virus was actually arrested and he eventually died. However by the time he was dying, he was a hero in that he came out openly to say that there is a virus that was going to endanger a lot of people’s lives in China and particularly in Hubei Province in China. The spread is now intensifying as China is taking very drastic measures to control this virus. However, the evidence is that it is spreading. It has gotten into Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. When it is in Thailand, it is close to India; and you know a lot of our people go to India. Many European countries now are reporting this virus; in the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, France, Spain and already there are cases in Egypt, Africa. It has gone across the Atlantic. It is attacking both from the Pacific and across the Indian Ocean. It is there in the United States of America, the biggest economy in the world which has all the facilities. The people who were evacuated from that cruise liner in Yokohama had to be taken to some facility outside Los Angeles, which is one of the states in the north; and Canada is doing the same. I am saying this because I was really surprised when I heard what our Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Ambassador said in a very pedantic and casual manner. I was really surprised because populations of Kenyans going and living in China; and the Chinese who are coming to Kenya, is a large population. It is a stream of people every day that have contact, either directly with people who are working or living in China; or indirectly with people who are coming to places which Kenya is connected to. Therefore, other than talking about the problem itself, the Committee should come out with answers from the Ministry of Health and the Government as a whole in terms of what the Government is already doing. This is because when it hits you, you must have a special facility. It has been shown that you cannot treat this virus in any ordinary health facilities, because if you try doing that, it will spread. You, therefore, need an isolated facility somewhere in a remote part of the country. So, what is our level of preparedness? The Ministry should provide statistics of Kenyans who are living in Wuhan. As you know, that town is the biggest city in Hubei Province, and the population there is very big. There are many Kenyans living in that province. We not only need statistics and data, but also what Kenya is doing in the real sense so that when we are hit, there will be facilities to deal with the problem. Otherwise, I agree with Sen. Wetangula that the way we are dealing with it--- I was coming from Kisumu just the other day, and I saw somebody wearing a mask, but he had open hands – he did not have gloves – with a little machine which I do not whether he knew what he was doing. This is because even before he had pointed it at me, I asked him, “Am I alright?” He said: “You are alright.” I was wondering whether, in an instant, he could determine whether I had the virus or not. Yet, it is not even the mask, but the open hands which are more dangerous. Even your own hands, if you touch your face and you are already in contact, like Sen. Kasanga was saying, that it is airborne--- Just touching your face may be very dangerous in terms of the spread of this virus. I, therefore, hope that the Government will come out more clearly."
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