It’s a bad month in region’s fight against Covid-19 as new infections hit its population

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Rwandans queue for Covid-19 jabs. East African nations are now counting on mass vaccination to protect their populace. PHOTO | FILE

Numbers of Covid-19 cases are rising again in East Africa even as countries bank on vaccinations to prevent another round of restrictions.

Over the past one month, Kenya’s positivity rate has risen from zero to more than five percent, the level which the World Health Organisation (WHO) often considers threatening.