Hits and misses: Nightmare of Kenya’s quarantine centres
Passengers who arrived at JKIA on March 24 were taken to different facilties on mandatory quarantine that has lasted more than 14 days for most of them. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL | NMG
The announcement by Kenya’s Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe of mandatory quarantine for all travellers who arrived into the country from March 22 was as chilling as it was direct.
The whole world was in a frenzy to shut down borders and airspaces in a bid to stop contact with so-called coronavirus hotspot countries. The Kenya government announced that it was closing its skies to passenger flights and all citizens and residents planning to come back to the country needed to do so before March 25, after which no more passenger flights would be allowed.
