What Kenya needs to do better as it braces for fourth wave of COVID-19

By Abdu Mohiddin, Assistant Professor, Aga Khan University
Marleen Temmerman, Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (OB/GYN), Aga Khan University
Rodney Adam, Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Pathology, Aga Khan University Hospital

Kenya is grappling with the COVID-19 Delta variant, which recently resulted in the western part of the country being put into lockdown. It now threatens the capital, Nairobi.

A modelling forecast from the Kenya Medical Research Institute in June 2021 warned of an imminent fourth…

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