Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) From an Emerging and Rapidly Evolving to a Trending Issue

By Dr Jefwa G. Mweri

Introduction

COVID-19 is an international current, emerging and rapidly evolving issue. Current affairs basically revolve around happenings in different fields such as the economy, sports, science and technology, medicine, environment, etc. and they operate at both national and international levels. COVID -19, as a current affair, is the most important of the day-to-day incidents and events around us.

Social Planning and Devolution: Counties Need Coherent Social Policies

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the social policy weaknesses of the devolved units of government as well as the absence of a coherent core across the different social development programmes of the National Government. For instance, the different social protection instruments implemented by the National Government but consumed at counties did not demonstrate a coordinated flow to be rapidly marshaled and deployed to address the pandemic-related crises.