During the long period that students have been on Covid-forced holiday, disturbing reports of an upsurge in cases of teenage pregnancies have emerged.
Since Covid-19 was reported in Kenya in March last year, the National Council on Population and Development says 20,828 girls between ages 10 and 14 have given birth while another 24,106 who fall in the 15 to 19 age bracket are either pregnant or mothers already.