This is how bad Covid-19 is affecting holiday travel in Kenya

With only a couple of days to Christmas, one would expect very left transport stations in many urban communities, as many individuals would race to head out to enjoy the merry season with loved ones.

Be that as it may, here in Kenya, business drivers say the account has changed because of the expanding instances of Coronavirus and especially the disclosure of another variation.

There are just couple of travelers at transport stations.

52-year-old driver, George Gatonye who handles Nairobi-Laikipia course say he says he has never experience this in his whole 30 years as a transport driver.

“At the point when you check out our vehicles, explicitly mine, it isn’t as yet full however it’s the ideal opportunity for me to move… all you find are generally laborers with one explorer in the vehicle… ” George Gatonye said.

Miriam Wanjiru, says there is something else to the present circumstance besides the Coronavirus travel limitations. She accepts financial difficulty has likewise added to the circumstance making it hard for her to trade out true to form.

She clarified the past was obviously superior to this year as there no indications of a superior Christmas shopping.

” … We are selling garments and when the clients come, they don’t buy. They just request from the cost and leave yet the garments are not even costly. “

As per official insights, as of December 21, 2021, Kenya had recorded 267,571 affirmed instances of COVID-19, with 249, 474 recuperated patients and more than 5 000 related passings.