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Government outlaws night burials for Covid 19 patients

Health CS Mutahi Kagwe (center) with Kenyatta National Hospital CEO Dr Evanson Kimuri (right) during a tour of Othaya Level 5 hospital in Othaya, Nyeri County. [Mose Sammy/Standard]

The government has succumbed to public pressure and outlawed night burials of people killed by Covid-19.

At the same time, 137 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in the last 24 hours, and three more deaths recorded, raising the death toll as a result of the disease to 103.

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