The government has launched a special designated isolation and treatment facility for the healthcare workers at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi.

The facility, set up by the Ministry of Health and private health organisations – the Rockefeller Foundation and Amref, will be used to offer treatment to health workers who are on the frontline in the war against coronavirus.

Safaricom will take a Sh5.5 billion hit on its M-Pesa revenue in the three months from mid-March after it waived transaction fees on mobile money transfers under Sh1,000.

The waiver was part of the quest for cashless payments to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

The foregone revenue is equivalent to 7.3 percent of M-Pesa’s annual sales. In the financial year that ended in March 2019, M-Pesa accounted for about a third of Safaricom’s Sh240.3 billion revenue.

We are facing a public health crisis that has never been witnessed before in the history of the modern world.  Like a whirlwind, Covid-19 struck the world so fast no one seems to understand what it is that is happening.  In a single, ominous strike COVID-19 has killed thousands, shut down economies, rendered millions jobless and overseen closure of schools. Practically, COVID-19 has completely disrupted all spheres of our lives in ways we couldn’t ever have imagined before.