?State interventions to fight Covid-19 have left hustlers out on a limb

Stranded commuters on Accra Road in downtown Nairobi on March 27. The recently imposed dusk-to-dawn curfew has killed off many small businesses. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The conventional wisdom is that coronavirus (Covid-19) does not discriminate between the poor and the rich.

But there is a belief that Covid-19 is a disease for the sonkos (the rich), who frequent abroad.