Last weekend Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that the dusk-to-dawn curfew had been extended by a further 21 days. This was one of the many times that we have received communication from the government—for more than 60 days running, including weekends—whether from the ministry of Health or the cabinet secretary informing us of new Covid-19 cases, deaths and recoveries.
In the beginning, we would anxiously wait for the announcement to be made—would it be was it 3pm or 4pm? People would literally wait by their TVs or even radios to listen to government plans on combating the virus.
