Tag: COVID-19 in Kenya

Kenya’s COVID-19 deaths hit 1,655, cases decline amid 2nd wave

Aoko Benjamin

East African country records 130 new cases, 2 more deaths in past 24 hours Kenya has confirmed two more COVID-19-related deaths making the number of those who have died from the dreaded infection to hit 1,655. The East Africa country also reported 130 new infections, indicating a decline in the number of infections amid a second wave of the pandemic in the eastern African country. “Two patients have succumbed to the disease, bringing the cumulative fatalities to 1,655,” the country’s Health Ministry tweeted in its recent update. The new confirmed…

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Tanzania bans Kenya Airways from flying into country as bickering worsens

Aoko Benjamin

Tanzania has slammed a ban on Kenya Airways from flying into the country as bickering between the two East African countries worsened. The Exclusion comes after Nairobi announced passengers from Tanzania would not be allowed to enter Kenya. The Tanzanian Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA), which declared that Kenya Airways flights were being banned “on a reciprocal basis,” maintained that this came after the Kenyan government decided against including Tanzania in a list of countries whose passengers would be allowed to enter Kenya when commercial flights resumed on Saturday following the…

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Kenyan school pupils to repeat classes as nation embargoes resumption until 2021

Aoko Benjamin

  All Kenyan primary and secondary  schools will remain shut until January 2021 The country’s education ministry, which declares this, noted that it would explore how to make online learning accessible to all students All schools in Kenya will remain closed until next January because of the coronavirus pandemic, the ministry said. Final year exams, usually taken in October and November, have also been cancelled. Education Minister George Magoha said students would repeat a year as schools had closed in mid-March, three months after the school calendar had begun. But…

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