As the pandemic enters the third month and the virus spreads to 22 counties, Baringo has only two isolation units -- at Kaptimbor Dispensary and Eldama Ravine Hospital -- with a paltry 17 beds.
Governor Stanley Kiptis, who co-chairs the county coronavirus emergency committee with County Commissioner Henry Wafula, had -- during the launch of the isolations wards -- pledged that his administration would set up more units, but this is yet to be done two months later.
Residents from far-flung areas of the county have proposed that isolation wards be set up in each of the six sub-counties to ease response to the pandemic.
The county's disaster risk department plans to provide food and non-food items to more than 200,000 vulnerable people in the region.
Though no coronavirus case has been reported in the county, a suspected case was reported at Kampi Samaki on the border of Baringo North and Baringo South sub-counties last month and the man was taken to hospital.
