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A global health crisis is slowly dimming Kenya's fortunes

The virus, which has since been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), now threatens to aggravate the unemployment crisis as various sectors of the Kenyan economy get infected.

Kenya, which is yet to cobble together a convincing narrative on how it will handle its first case of the disease-leave alone a sound strategy on how to stem its entry into the country, is no longer immune.

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