EDITORIAL: Region on right track in virus war, more can be done
Health personnel measure the temperature of a visitor at the entrance of the Mbagathi Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya on March 18, 2020. PHOTO | LUIS TATO | AFP
Following a period of hesitance, Eastern African governments finally took some definitive steps to preclude a Covid-19 epidemic in the region.
After Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania reported positive cases, governments scrambled to expand travel restrictions that initially focused on arrivals, mainly by air.
