After party, Kisumu to feel reality of Covid

Deputy President William Ruto acknowledging greetings from Kisumu residents after the 58th Madaraka Day Celebration at Jomo Kenyatta International Stadium, Mamboleo, Kisumu County. [Jonah Mwangi, DPPS, Standard]

Kisumu County hosted this year’s Madaraka Day celebrations on June 1. This despite surging cases of Covid-19 and recent discovery of the Indian variant, which is 50 per cent more transmissible than other variants.

Only 3,000 card-invited guests were to be allowed inside the 30,000-seater Jomo Kenyatta International stadium “under very strict protocol procedures… to protect people from these variants that have been detected.”