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Kenya: a teenage pregnancies rise during lockdown
Kenya: a teenage pregnancies rise during lockdown
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Machakos County has reported almost 4000 teenage pregnancies since the coronavirus outbreak in March. The statistics were released by the Children’s Department of Machakos. Girls were below 19, 104 cases were girls between the ages of 10-14. Machakos government has started an investigation to verify these numbers.