Kenyan quarantine centres are in worse state than jails

A section of Kenyans who were put in quarantine for 23 days after they arrived home from abroad are locked inside the compound of Kenyatta University. They have accused the government of holding them past the World Health Organisation's stipulated time frame. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Like people around the world, Rachel Gachuna is extremely worried about catching coronavirus. But she is just as fearful about being locked up in a Kenyan quarantine centre.

If the single mother of one-year-old twins is to believe those already held at some of these government-assigned facilities, living conditions are not much better than at a prison.