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Italy evacuates 500 tourists stranded in Kenya

A lonely tourist at the Jomo Kenyatta Public beach on May 7, 2020, despite its closure by the government due to the spread of Covid-19. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

Italy has started taking home its citizens from Kenya’s coastal towns in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic.

The European nation has so far documented at least 32,000 deaths related to Covid-19, against Kenya’s 50.

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