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Covid-19 slowed things, but Kenyans breathed life into tourism industry

Tourists at Maasai Mara National game reserve in Narok County. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

The world came to a near standstill over a year ago when the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Africa watched for a while as the virus spread through Europe, the East and the Americas.

For a moment, Africa seemed safe until the first cases began to emerge months into the announcement of the first infections around March 2020.

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