In a news conference Monday evening, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe touted the country’s ability to flatten the curve and lift the emergency declaration in about a month and a half — without compulsory lockdown measures seen in the United States and Europe,pointing out that the number of patients in hospitals has decreased to below 2,000. He based this on a judgement call after seeing that the country had met the strict standard therefore lifting the state of emergency in comparison to other countries.

COVID-19 first broke out in Wuhan, a city in China in December 2019, this is common knowledge to everyone. Fast forward to 5 months later and this virus became a global pandemic; not being a respecter of persons or country, shuts down the world, forcing people to stay at home, void of social interactions that make us humans. Then began the theories it was manufactured in the lab, it is a biological warfare, and so on and so forth. Does this come as a huge surprise that Wuhan lab admits to having three live strains of bat coronavirus on site? Did you gasp?

President Uhuru Kenyatta extended the nationwide dusk to dawn curfew and partial lockdown for another 21days until the 6th June 2020. This government directive continues to affect Kenyans who need to work in order to provide meals for their families. Experts are now engaging on what the government needs to do to cushion Kenya for an economic recovery.