Third wave of Covid-19 hits a battered Kenyan economy

Uhuru Kenyatta.

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta gives his address to the nation on the health guidelines for the year on March 12, 2021. PHOTO | PSCU

Kenya is accepting that the cost of reducing loss of lives from the Covid-19 pandemic is woeful economic performance.

In his first address to the nation on the health guidelines for 2021, President Uhuru Kenyatta said that the country’s economy had grown 10 times slower than planned.