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The government has launched a special designated isolation and treatment facility for the healthcare workers at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi as the healthcare workers cases rise to 281.

The facility, set up by the Ministry of Health and private health organisations – the Rockefeller Foundation and Amref, will be used to offer treatment to health workers who are on the frontline in the war against coronavirus.

We are facing a public health crisis that has never been witnessed before in the history of the modern world.  Like a whirlwind, Covid-19 struck the world so fast no one seems to understand what it is that is happening.  In a single, ominous strike COVID-19 has killed thousands, shut down economies, rendered millions jobless and overseen closure of schools. Practically, COVID-19 has completely disrupted all spheres of our lives in ways we couldn’t ever have imagined before.

UoN Dental Plaza, would like to inform you and the general public that we have resumed operations.

To make an appointment visit www.dentalplaza.co.ke or call us on 0204915915 for dental services.

This is good news, for those who had borrowed library books: the Library has been authorized to waive fines for books that were due or about to be due when the University went on lockdown on 03/16/2020. The books should be returned when the lockdown is lifted. Between now and then, no fines for late return will accrue.

The United Nations has put Kenya on its Covid-19 outbreak watch list in what could see Nairobi benefit from the Sh211.8 trillion ($2 trillion) global emergency fund.

Others on the list are Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Madagascar, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Timor-Leste as well as countries in Central America and the Pacific region.

UN relief chief Mark Lowcock said the list could be expanded to include more poor countries as the deadly virus continues to spread.

Marking its 50th anniversary, University of Nairobi’s school of law has joined the prestigious Global Campus of Human Rights.

Since the start of the outbreak of Covid-19, the virus has spread to over 184 countries and territories. The world has come together in an effort to combat the virus and one of the many ways is the launch of a global Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) on 25th March 2020.

Please see attached Job Description(s) for an ongoing recruitment by Huawei in partnership with Konza Technopolis Development Authority.

Qualified students to apply immediately by sending their CVs to hr@huawei.com Subject: Job title applied for.

In light of the Earth Day 2020 (April 22nd 2020), you are invited to a webinar organised by the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace & Environmental Studies in collaboration with the Green Belt Movement, on:

"Citizen Action Towards Securing Our Future"

The webinar will be held on Thursday 16th April, 2020,

Time: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Time Zone: Africa/Nairobi - EAT +0300

Where: Online Event

Speakers

The Africa Union (AU) has appointed 3 University of Nairobi dons to its Science Technology and Innovations (STI) for Covid-19 interventions .The three are Professor Francis Mulaa, Prof. Ratemo Michieka and Prof Dimbson Bulimo.