Positive and percentage rises on the day when the President of Kenya should announce some news in the continuation of the pandemic emergency. After a fairly quiet month, both in the calculation of cases and deaths (124 in the last 30 days, only two in the last 24 hours), and the percentage of cases on swab that stood below 5% as desired by the Ministry of Health, the moment of truth has arrived.
According to the World Health Organization, Kenya reached the pandemic peak at the end of August, this coincided with a lower influx of aid and fatally with a drop in attention both by institutions (the counties began to accuse shortages and disorganization, and then denounce a liability in the budgets not healed by the Government) and by citizens, who now in Nairobi alone are inclined to respect the rules, but where, however, the social distance remains only in offices and restaurants.
What is expected today, after yesterday's 244 cases and the total at the threshold of 40,000 (38,115) is at least an extension of the evening opening, with a curfew reduced by a few hours (11 or midnight) and an announcement that will make the owners of the bars happy or re-establish the sale of alcohol in public places already open. However, there is little else to announce, since by now the country has reopened a bit 'everything and rightly remain some restrictions on the number of people attending public ceremonies (funerals and weddings and churches, limit of 100 people) but where meetings and political rallies begin to occur where hundreds of people flock, often without respecting any rules.
As a result of this, one would think that Covid-19 is no longer (if ever it was) a big problem in Kenya, especially now that the number of road accidents is increasing and the number of malaria cases is rising again.
It would also be time for the hospitals to return to take care of those patients that the pandemic has turned into second-class patients or who had to treat themselves in an alternative way for fear of somehow encountering the virus on which the spotlight was focused and then having to behave accordingly (isolation, quarantine, paid treatment) even in case of light or non-existent symptoms.
So let's wait for Uhuru Kenyatta's speech and we will understand what the future holds for the country, its citizens and its economy.