This archive report was first published on 16 May 2020.
As the seven-week partial lockdown in Kenya comes to an end, the question on everyone's mind is: what's next for the country?
With dusk-to-dawn curfews and travel restrictions set to expire this weekend, the government is under pressure to consider relaxing some of the restrictions while keeping tabs on the potential risks.
Health experts argue that the containment measures have largely saved the population, with the country registering 781 infections, 45 deaths, and 284 recoveries by Friday.
Since the first case of Covid-19 was discovered in Wuhan, China, last December, the pandemic has spread and brought the world to a standstill, with medical science grappling with solutions but no cure in sight yet.
The World Health Organisation has declared that the virus is here to stay, and the world has to find ways of managing and living with it.
However, the lockdowns and restrictions have wrought unprecedented misery upon the world, with economies tanking and heading for depression worse than the 2008-9 financial crisis.
According to the International Monetary Fund, the global economy is expected to contract by three per cent this year, while Kenya's economy had an initial growth projection of six per cent but is now predicted to shrink by half.
Given the prevailing realities, countries have started to reopen their economies to avert a total collapse, with airlines announcing resumption of flights in the coming days to stem massive losses incurred when they were grounded for weeks.
