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Essential services that could leave you with the virus

Inmates at Eldoret GK prison. [Peter Ochieng/Standard]

Kenyans are sitting on a time bomb unless some weak links in the fight against coronavirus are quickly fixed.

The difficult fight against the virus is made more complicated and riskier within the crowded jails, where hand-washing with soap and exercising social distancing in the relatively small blocks and cells are still a mirage and may cost the country dearly.  

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