Covid-19: Remember more men are dying as women shoulder more responsibilities

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe briefs the nation on its Covid-19 status. [Archive, Standard]

Pre-existing social, political and economic inequalities in the society are exposing our vulnerabilities and amplifying the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic but the gender aspect has been overlooked.

  The pandemic has had a disproportionately negative effect on women with the consequences likely to outlast the actual epidemic.