Africa's unsung army of women wage war on COVID-19

A health worker takes a swab from a woman during mass testing in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Nairobi, Kenya May 28, 2020. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Armed with a face mask, notebook and pen, Everlyne Akinyi Omondi sets out each morning from her one-room home in Nairobi’s informal settlement of Kawangware to do a job few others would contemplate in a pandemic.

As cases of the new coronavirus climb and Kenyans are told to stay home and avoid human contact, 38-year-old Omondi moves house to house through Kawangware’s maze of narrow lanes.