The University of Nairobi has proposed that 2.5 per cent of funds mobilised to fight Covid-19 be channelled towards the development of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. The university, in a memo to the Senate’s ad hoc Committee on the Covid-19 Situation, further called for tax exemptions for equipment, reagents, and other scientific commodities for Covid-19 and infectious diseases research. UoN’s College of Health Sciences-led consortium that brings together the Kenya Health Federation, Kenya Health Informatics Association and the Health Sector Board of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance made the proposal. The government alongside the United Nations and other humanitarian partners have launched a platform to raise funds for Covid-19 response. He said the university is committed and ready to align its faculty, technical and organisational capacity to support the national response to the pandemic.

Source: The Star April 16, 2020 02:26 UTC