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Coronavirus creeps along East Africa's trucking corridors

A truck driver gets screened for Covid-19 at Kibwezi junction along Mombasa-Nairobi highway. [Stephen Nzioka, Standard]

Every day hundreds of trucks snake out from East Africa’s main ports in Kenya and Tanzania, carrying cargo to the landlocked hinterlands. However, fears are now rising, seeing as these trucks are becoming a major vector for the coronavirus.

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