Reopen places of worship to scale up Covid-19 awareness among wananchi

A near empty All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi on Sunday, May 24 2020. [David Njaaga, Standard]

To contain spread of Covid-19 and confine its reach to limited numbers, President Uhuru Kenyatta recently proposed a raft of measures including cessation of prayer sessions bringing together large crowds in religious structures countrywide. 

The move saw an outcry of a section of the clergy particularly when restaurants and eateries were allowed to operate under more flexible conditionalities. In fact, the move to close prayer rooms was necessary then, given the little we knew about the virus.