Kenya’s coronavirus quarantine camps: Allegations of corruption and police brutality

So far Kenya, as the rest of Africa, seems to have been relatively spared from the worst impacts of coronavirus though cases continue to rise steadily.

The East African country did impose strict and sometimes controversial measures early on in the outbreak – in the hope of avoiding a potential disaster.

One of those measures was putting suspected Covid cases in quarantines camps, camps people have been escaping from, amid allegations of squalid living conditions and corruption.

We have been given access to film with a task force charged with tracking down those supposed to be quarantined in these centres.

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