From early on, the government treated COVID-19 as a law enforcement rather than public health issue. It has a long way to go to rebuild trust.
After recording its first case COVD-19 on 13 March, Kenya could have taken one of two options. The first was to treat the introduction of the highly infectious disease as a public health crisis. This would have involved rapidly increasing testing, educating people on how to reduce the risk of transmission, and diverting resources to facilitate this new behaviour.
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