A century later, another pandemic haunts Coast

Traders are the most affected as new rules of boarding the ferry take effect. [Gideon Maundu, Standard].

Ghosts of a century ago are back to haunt Mombasa which is yet again hit hard by the novel coronavirus, just as it was in the days of the Spanish flu.

Like in 1918, Mombasa was jerked out of its false sense of invincibility when it suffered its first scare when a Kenyan student arrived from China with symptoms associated with the virus.