4,000 school pupils Impregnated In Kenya during COVID-19 lockdown – report

  Over 4,000 primary and secondary school pupils in Kenya’s Machakos County have been reportedly impregnated during the period of lockdown for COVID-19 pandemic. This sudden surge in reported teen pregnancies within Machakos County, a data released during the commemoration of the Day of the African Child showed, is threatening to cut short the pursuit for education by vulnerable girls “with latest statistics now showing 4,000 school-going children had been impregnated since mid-March.” There is an obvious surge in “the number of newly reported teen pregnancies with coronavirus-related restrictions top…

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