Health workers to get Sh3b coronavirus risk allowance

Covid-19 mass testing at Ngei Primary School in Langata Sub-County, Nairobi. [Samson Wire, Standard]

Health workers will smile all the way to the bank following the approval of their long-awaited Sh3 billion Covid-19 allowances as pledged by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

The new allowances, ranging between Sh5,000 and Sh20,000 for different cadres of health workers including doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians were to be paid for three months from April 1. The medics had threatened to down tools if they do not get the allowances in July.