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Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha with Form Two students at Ombaka Secondary school in Nyando. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]
As school reopen the safety of nearly 16 million students requires complicated protocols ranging from symptom monitoring to physical social distancing, as well as containment of coronavirus transmission in the community.
Widespread screening for asymptomatic carriers of the virus is not currently part of strategy although children and adults without symptoms may play a role in viral transmission.
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