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MY AFRIKA
Leadership
Kiraitu Murungi
LLB (Hons) LLM(NB) LLM (Harvard)
An advocate of the High Court of
Kenya, and the Governor
of Meru County, Kenya.
Reclaiming My Life
HOW COVID-19 HELPED CHANGED MY PERSPECTIVE ABOUT LIFE AND LIVING
(Published with permission from the governor's office)
had interacted with Covid-19 media giving statistics of those test- Covid-19 symptoms. No cough, no
at a distance, as we continually ed, those who had turned positive, sneezing, no fever. I felt relatively
advised the people of Meru those being treated in hospitals, safe. Little did I know that I would
I to wear masks, wash hands, those under home care, and those soon be part of those statistics.
avoid shaking hands and keep social who had died.
distances. My encounter with coronavirus was
I had always worn a KN95 mask in most unexpected. It was a most
I had followed Health Cabinet all my public gatherings. I had taken frightening experience. Coronavirus
Secretary Mutahi Kagwe and other Covid-19 tests thrice, and they had was no-longer merely an issue of
ministry officials every day in the all turned negative. I had no usual statistics and emotional debates. It
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