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Transporters protest stringent EAC anti Covid-19 regulations

Trucking firms have decried new strict measures imposed by the East Africa Community States to contain the spread of novel coronavirus through long-distance drivers.

The truckers through the Kenya Transport Association (KTA) said on Monday that the measures requiring their 15,000 drivers to undergo testing for Covid-19 disease before picking cargo for the transit market were punitive.

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