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Since the country registered its first Covid-19 case in March, Rebecca Gema, 48, a visually impaired timber merchant and bar owner in Nakuru County, has been disturbed.
For Gema, the Covid-19 crisis is a double ordeal; first, she had to close down her businesses due to dwindling sales, and secondly, she cannot freely move out of her house in Shabaab Estate.
“I cannot keep social distance and avoid touching surfaces when I am outside the house.”
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