KENYA'S COVID19
PANDEMIC RESPONSE

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In many African countries, the COVID19 pandemic is still an unfolding story right now. It is already disrupting millions of people’s livelihoods – especially for poor households and small and informal businesses.

WHO has categorized African nations into priority groups based on transport connections between countries and China. Kenya has been identified as a Level 1 country for the COVID19 disease by the US Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC’s 3 level classification); Level 1 basically means: Practice usual precautions to keep yourself from getting sick if traveling to the country; Level 3 means: Avoidance of all non-essential travel. Based on both classification, Kenya ranks as a top priority country, alongside others such as Algeria, Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, DRC, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.