Everything you must know about Uhuru’s new COVID-19 regulations

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 4- President Uhuru Kenyatta has made a review of COVID-19 protocols following an upsurge in infections.

Here is what you need to know about the new rules;

A person defying COVID-19 protocols and mostly failing to wear a face mask will not be served in public offices.

The President asked the private sector to extend the same to their respective premises.

You have a candidate in school and worried about their welfare because of the disease?

Students who resumed learning in the phased ‘re-opening of schools will continue preparing for their exams.

There will however be heightened measures to protect the students from getting the disease that has so far claimed more than 1,000 lives.

Those in schools are Grade 4 pupils, Class 8 and Form four candidates, as well as University students.

What about the rest of students?

The President said they will not return to school until January, 2021.

About the heightened political activities, the President effected a 60 day ban on all public meetings.

If one so wishes to hold one, the President said, it should be done in a town hall with the total occupation being a third of its capacity.

Similarly, and to protect government staffers drawn from vulnerable groups, he directed that all State and Public Officers aged above 58 years to work remotely, with the exemption of those serving critical areas.

Cabinet Secretaries, Chief Administrative Secretaries and Principal Secretaries were asked to scale-down all in-person engagements within Government and to take appropriate steps to foster the discharge of their mandates by themselves and their officers through virtual means where possible.

Beginning Wednesday, dusk to dawn curfew hours were reviewed to start from 10pm to 4am.

As such, bars and restaurants will be required to close at 9pm.

To enforce all this, he asked the Interior Ministry to form a special security squad involving the National Police Service and County Inspectorate departments.