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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.”
But the laxity witnessed during the celebrations had medics and researchers worried, considering that the lakeside city has been named alongside North Rift, upper and north eastern regions as being the emerging epicentres of Covid-19, according to a source at the Covid-19 Centre.
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