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INFORMATION DISSEMINATION FROM NGO’s IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 IN KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP

By Hibo Mohammed – KANERE Staff Writer April, 2020

The residents of Kakuma have been worried about the Covid-19 pandemic, which has affected many countries but has yet to reach the camp. On 13th March 2020, Kenya announced its first case of Corona Virus, and fear rose in the camp when it was reported in The Daily Nation on March 20th that four people had been detained while attempting to enter Kakuma by road. Due to concerns that they might have been infected by coronavirus, they were put into isolation. The three Somali-Americans men were all relatives; the eldest had just returned from the US, and he was accompanied on the road by his son and grandson.