Kenya: Covid-19 - Pressure Mounts on Govt to Close Schools in Lake Region

The government has ruled out closure of schools to contain the surge of Covid-19 cases in the Lake region, amid pressure from the local business community for the measure to be taken in the 13 counties placed under partial lock down last week.

But Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha on Wednesday insisted that there was no cause of alarm, noting that the government had put in place sufficient measures to deal with the spike of the pandemic in the region, which has been declared a "disease infected zone."

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