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The hype that coronavirus has received is intense, and so has the attendant fear. When it was first reported in Wuhan, China in December last year, it did not cause much concern. Indeed, there was no reason to panic, especially after Wuhan was quarantined. However, little did the world know that the Chinese authorities had closed the stable door long after the horse had bolted.

Now the world has to deal with a pandemic it is ill-equipped to handle. When news that the first case of coronavirus had been detected in Kenya broke last week, there was palpable panic. Supermarkets were jammed by people afraid of the effects of a possible lockdown and those who bought the idea that alcohol-based sanitisers were the best defence. Among netizens, as usual, there were those who took everything as an elaborate prank while others took it seriously. There are those who wondered why people shouldn't just drink the alcohol and saturate the system to lock out the virus.