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Treating Covid-19 costly affair for the poor, says research

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Nation | by Allan Olingo

Kenyans have spent billions of shillings on treatment of Covid-19 since March 13 when the first case of the pandemic was reported in Nairobi, a new study has revealed.

A research report uploaded by Kenyan scientists on the online health sciences portal, Journal MedRxiv, estimates that it costs about Sh24,000 to treat an asymptomatic Covid-19 patient under home-based isolation and care, with the cost surging to more than Sh712,000 for patients who become critically ill from the viral infection and require hospital admission…

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