Kenya to close borders with Tanzania, Somalia over Covid-19 fears

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Kenya to close borders with Tanzania, Somalia over Covid-19 fears
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Kenya will stop the movement of people and vehicles, but not goods, from its southern and northern neighbours from midnight.

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Saturday that the country’s Covid-19 measures would be extended and its borders with Tanzania and Somalia closed.

“Among the positive cases that have been registered in the country this week, a total of 43 cases have recently crossed the border from neighbouring Somalia and Tanzania,” Kenyatta said in a televised address. Kenyatta also said the national 7pm-5am curfew would be extended until 6 June, as would a ban on entering or exiting the cities of Nairobi, Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale and Mandera.

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