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Men jam pandemic hotline with calls

Dr Pauline Karingu at the call centre. Some 50 doctors are on standby to respond to coronavirus concerns. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

More men than women are calling the 719 hotline set up by the Ministry of Health for coronavirus information.

According to call centre data, three quarters of the callers have been men, most of them from the Rift Valley and Western regions.

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