He reassured us that we would overcome the pandemic by tightening our belts and obediently following the national health guidelines and laws created to curb COVID-19. Like too many of their counterparts around the globe, they would have realised that there wasn’t a comprehensive national insurance to protect informal workers like them from the shock to come. The pandemic for the wealthyIt is fear that in March drove middle-class and wealthy Kenyans to the supermarkets and pharmacies in troves. Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Mugambi used to work as a driver. Under the national Inua Jamii programme, 1,094,323 vulnerable Kenyans have been receiving between Ksh.2000-2700 since January, says the government.

Source: Daily Nation October 28, 2020 10:52 UTC