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Spare no effort in locking out Corona, its costs are too high

Muslims wear protective face masks following the coronavirus outbreak, as they pray on a street during Friday prayers in local souq, in Manama, Bahrain, February 28, 2020. [Reuters]

The CoronaVirus just escalated from epidemic to an info-demic. Public anxiety is justifiably at an all-time high. Nairobi is now the sixth most vulnerable city in Africa to Covid-19 infection. The handling of the China Southern Airlines flight on Wednesday must cause us to ask hard questions of our Government.

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