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New market violates all pandemic regulations

The new market site outside Moi Stadium, Kisumu. It is now more congested than Kibuye market which was shut down last month. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

When Kisumu County Government closed Kibuye market a month ago, the mission was to reduce congestion and the accompanying risk of coronavirus infections.

However, the objectives of the closure fly in the face of the sordid state of the new site picked for wholesale traders shut out of Kibuye.

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