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Fight virus but don’t allow rights violations to return

Listening to the 13th coronavirus presidential address from isolation in England provoked new perspectives. The address comes as a resurgence of Covid-19 leads to new lockdowns across England and Europe and may cost US President Donald Trump the presidency.

Very regrettably, the progress Kenya had made by September has been reversed. Positivity rates have quadrupled, and hospital bed occupancy is now at 150 per cent. Like a bad infestation of jiggers, the virus hunts all our toes again.

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