Mogadishu local government has started fumigating parts of the city as part of measures to contain the spread of Coronavirus.
Deputy Mayor of Social Affairs & Public Awareness at Mogadishu Municipality, Basma Amir Ahmed said that a dozens of health officers are involved in the exercise.
The fumigation targets public resting furniture, bus stops, markets and other areas with high social gatherings.
“We will do our best to ensure that we disinfect and control the spread of the coronavirus especially in the city,” she said.
The move comes amid the U.S 350 hospital beds to Somalia to bolster the fight against COVID-19.
The U.S. embassy in Mogadishu said Monday in a statement the U.S. government through its international aid agency USAID handed over 350 beds and 500 bedsheets to ‘support the Somali Government in preventing and controlling the spread of COVID-19.’
“The United States is proud to assist the Somali Government during this critical time,” said the U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Donald Y. Yamamoto. “Well equipped isolation centers where patients are well cared for and are safely and comfortably separated, will help limit the spread of COVID-19 throughout the country.”
The Coronavirus cases in Somalia are rising sharply with total cases now stand at 237 cases of COVID-19. A further 73 cases as confirmed Monday by the health ministry.
The first case of Coronavirus in Somalia was mid last month.
