By GITAU WARIGI More by this AuthorLives versus livelihoods neatly distilled the dilemma for the government ahead of its July 6 announcement on the Covid-19 situation. COVID-19 ISOLATION UNITSIn any case, as of last week, only 23 counties had met the Ministry of Health's recommended threshold of 300-bed capacity Covid-19 isolation units for each county. Ominously, Kenya is easing restrictions when the Covid-19 caseload has been rising alarmingly lately. As of last week, our country ranked 10th overall in Africa in virus cases and ninth in the number of deaths. "When this Covid-19 pandemic ends..." has become a common utterance when people talk of to-do tasks "post-Covid".

Source: Daily Nation July 11, 2020 22:50 UTC