Impact of COVID-19 to the Economy of Kenya
Posted on the Research and Innovation Blog by FA Joab O. Odhiambo
Posted on the Research and Innovation Blog by FA Joab O. Odhiambo
Smart work always pays, you never know when lady luck knocks. Eric Munyao Ngumbi will always be grateful for enrolling for a Masters degree in Law at the University of Nairobi.
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread rapidly across the globe, disrupting daily activities, ruining economies and livelihoods and in extreme cases, claiming lives. It has thrown the whole world into a crisis and for the first time in history, humanity is fighting a common enemy. This is so because everyone has a role to play in this unprecedented global war. Transport operators too, have a key role to play to prevent the spread of the infection while keeping essential services like food and medicine supply running.
UoN has been ranked in the top 6.8% out of twenty thousand universities worldwide according to the Center for World University Rankings’ new list for 2020-21.
Early April amid the panicky crescendo of drumbeats for strong-arm solutions for managing COVID-19, my friends and I held series of online touch-base sessions. The friends were in four different continents- Africa (Kilifi, Kenya), America (Boston, USA), Europe (Leeds, England) and Asia (Kathmandu, Nepal). From the onset, we were struck by the commonality of the responses being adopted across the world – rapid militarization and medicalization of the pandemic all peppered in a variety of politicization.
Kenya like many other developing countries has a fragile and underdeveloped health care system. The government has prioritised “flattening the curve” for COVID-19 infections through non pharmaceutical measures.
Kenya Policy Briefs is a publication for researchers to present their work, explicitly aligned to the objectives of @KenyaVision2030. Kenya
The main objective of this blog is to emphasize the importance of herbal medicine as a possible alternative and effective treatment of coronavirus disease 2019. Specific objectives include, to highlight:
Researchers should be careful when approached by some companies to submit articles or serve as editors on editorial Boards as in this fast growing age of technology, there are a lot of questionable and unscrupulous companies out there that purport to provide scholarly publications.