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Ravaging diseases that wiped out 500 million people

A deserted Ronald Ngala Street in Nairobi yesterday as most city residents stayed away due to the ravaging Covid-19 disease. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

No wedding, no burials and no birthday parties! TV sports channels are blank, schools and universities closed, churches and mosques empty.

What a world! Who would have thought of such a bleak Easter where holidays which had been meticulously planned for months are abruptly cancelled? A world in which families that had been planning these getaways for months will be lucky to get permission to go to their local drugstore for cough syrup is now a reality?

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