Pandemic: Past week has shown even health workers are scared

Officials from the public health department fumigate Umoja health center in Nairobi on March 30, 2020 as Government upscalled fumigation of public areas in Eastlands to contain the spread of Coronavirus. Photo [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

The novel coronavirus has presented a unique and unprecedented challenge to healthcare providers around the world. Thousands have contracted the deadly virus, with hundreds having succumbed. More are still at risk of contracting the disease.

From doctors to those who attend to patients, none is sure of the next time they will see their loved ones from the moment they report to work. And there are all the possibilities that reporting to work could as well mark one’s first of the 14 days of mandatory quarantine. Yet, even when one has been put under quarantine, the anxiety from fears that the test could turn out positive for coronavirus is just unbearable.Based on what has happened since the disease broke out in Wuhan, China, last year, no one is safe.