MEASURES TAKEN FOR SCHOOL RE-OPENING

Schools might be reopening in two and half months time (September) and according to CS Prof Magoha, he felt confident that the preparations in place to check the spread of Covid-19 among learners were sufficient. The Education Ministry still has ongoing consultation on the academic calendar year more so on the school exams. Prof Magoha requested that board of management should support governmental efforts to create a safe,conducive environment for the students upon school resumption. These efforts include:

NORMAL OPERATIONS RESUMPTION FOR COMMUTER TRAINS

In his national address, President Kenyatta, on the 6th June 2020 revised the government nationwide dusk to dawn curfew from 7pm-5am to 9pm-4am. Kenya Railways tweeted  "Kenya Railways wishes to inform our customers that effective Monday 15th June 2020, all commuter trains will revert to the normal schedule ; following the revision of the daily national curfew hours from 7:00 p.m. - 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

$100 MILLION YOUTUBE FUND IN SUPPORT OF BLACK CONTENT CREATORS

These Covid-19 pandemic times has seen an interesting turn of everyone turning to social media for their businesses or starting channels on cooking, make up, fashion, memes, challenges the list is endless. The popular platforms are TikTok, Instagram. YouTube is not being left behind, in light of George Floyd's death, they are launching a $100 million fund to amplify the voices of black creators on its platform by developing talent and funding new shows. The fund will support the creation of new YouTube original programming and help with the development of black creators and artists.