Every day, many people pass through Kiambu to get to and from the Coast, the north of the country, west and even east. Additionally, many residents had let their guard down and thrown the Covid protocols out of the window. Washing of hands had almost completely been ignored and sanitising was something ‘those fellows’ in the high-end Nairobi estates did. Vendors and a sizeable number of commodity buyers had dropped their masks and the hand washing ‘mitungis’ had long run dry. Even before Covid, Kiambu county and especially Kiambu Level 5 Hospital, was receiving many patients from Nairobi and beyond.

Source: The Star March 29, 2021 00:56 UTC