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Hard choices beckon as highest cases recorded

A possible lockdown is one of the options that awaits Kenyans on Wednesday as President Uhuru Kenyatta chairs a meeting to deliberate the country’s soaring Covid-19 situation.

Yesterday, a new high of cases was reported after 1,395 people tested positive from a sample of 7,635. It is the fourth time the country is recording new cases above 1,000 –all in October – since the pandemic was first reported in March.

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