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10 emerging issues from Covid-19 reporting in Kenya

Lack of enough data, proper research, proper planning, and compassion towards each other are among the factors hampering the fight against Covid -19 in Kenya. These emerged at a Twitter spaces discussion hosted by the Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE)...

Kenya’s Post Covid Recovery has to be People -Centered NOT Coal- Centered

A post covid recovery plan should prioritise people and not a polluting coal industry, this is according to Greenpeace Africa. The Kenyan budget outlining the governments’ plans for Kenya’s Post COVID recovery released in June 2021 clearly shows the government's intentions...

54 countries ban travel for Kenyans as Covid -19 effects continue to bite

A total of 54 countries have banned Kenyan passport holders from setting foot in their countries because they have not approved the vaccine used to fight against Covid-19 in the country. Kenya, which is grappling with the pandemic including the...

CMA and KEPSA sign MoU to support market deepening and uptake of capital market products

The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) to support market deepening and leveraging capital market products to catalyse growth in line with the Big 4 Agenda and Sustainable Development...

Dr Githinji Gitahi Appointed to the New Commission on African COVID-19 Response by South Africa President, H.E Cyril Ramaphosa

Dr Githinji Gitahi, Group CEO, Amref Health Africa has been appointed as a commissioner in the newly constituted Commission on African COVID-19 Response. This comes after the announcement of the appointment of H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa as the African Union Champion...

EU Digital COVID Certificate “Green Pass not inclusive of everyone-AU

The African union has decried the fact that the applicability of the EU Digital COVID Certificate “Green Pass” to different COVID-19 vaccines excludes persons who received the Covishield vaccine. Basically, while the AstraZeneca vaccine (ChAdOx1_nCoV-19) produced and authorized in Europe...

Kenya decries inequalities in the availability, access and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines

The government of Kenya has decried the inequalities in the availability, access, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines as the numbers stand at 166,000 confirmed positive about 114,000 recoveries and 3000 deaths since the pandemic was first reported. While speaking at a...

The Rising Covid-19 Cases in The Third Wave of The Pandemic

In the past few weeks, Kenya has registered an increase in the positivity rate of covid-19 up to about 22 per cent from 5 per cent in the previous period. Despite there being an introduction of the vaccine in the...

Kenyans’ reaction to the Covid-19 vaccine

Kenya received its first batch of the covid-19 vaccine on the 3rd of March 2021. The Ministry of Health received about one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The vaccines were delivered by...

Covid-19 in Africa and How Governments Have Adopted Measures To Curb its Spread

The first case of Covid-19  in the world was first reported in Wuhan, China in 2019. However, the origin of the virus and transmission to human beings is still unknown. It was speculated that the virus could have originated...

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