On the flip side, truckers fuel the growth of future urban centres
Trucks wait to enter Uganda at Malaba, border crossing. All truck drivers crossing from Kenya must take a test for Covid-19 by Ugandan health officials. PHOTO | BRIAN ONGORO | AFP
Countries in the East African hinterland, especially Uganda and Rwanda, have been making very unhappy noises about long-distance truck drivers, as they have now become super-spreaders of the new coronavirus.
Said an AFP report: “Every day hundreds of trucks fan out from East Africa's main ports in Kenya and Tanzania carrying cargo to the landlocked hinterland, and fears are rising they are becoming a major vector for the coronavirus.
