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How digital health passes can help curb Covid-19 The Star Abigail Owilla, a nurse administers Covid-19 vaccine to a health worker at Mutuini Hospital, Dagoreti on March 9, 2021 Image: ANDREW KASUKU
• A digital health pass as a system designed to enable businesses verify an individual s health credentials
• Some countries such as Israel have already adopted and inculcated the use such passes
While the Covid-19 pandemic has been a disaster of the first magnitude, ingenious developments in medicine and technology have ensured the existence of humanity.
Notably, the development of various vaccines has been a glimmer of hope. Despite hesitancy regarding the vaccines, the number of Kenyans opting to be vaccinated has gradually increased, giving hope for the re-opening of the country. To return to normalcy, I make the case for the introduction of digital health passes.
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Judith Adhiambo (right) flanked by her Sister Lilian Ochieng the daughters to the late Philip Ochieng, a veteran journalist and columnist, eulogize their father during the burial at their home in Manyata village in Awendo sub-County Migori. (Caleb Kingwara, Standard)
Veteran journalist Philip Ochieng was buried at his home in Manyatta Village, Migori County yesterday. His family, led by daughter Judith Adhiambo, eulogised him as a family man.
They said he was a celebrity to the outside world, and famous as a wordsmith, but was always quiet at home.
“It had great meaning for me. My father was never an orator both in public and at home,” said Adhiambo.
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Philip Ochieng [Photo: Courtesy]
The story of Kenyan journalism will remain incomplete without a narrative on Philip Ochieng who died on April 27, aged 83.
Ochieng, who will be buried today, ranked among the elite journalists who left an indelible mark on the country’s media landscape.
Should one day the idea of a journalism hall of fame come to fruition, PO, as he was fondly known, would certainly feature alongside renowned Kenyan editors such as Boaz Omori, George Githii, Hilary Ng’weno, Joe Rodrigues, Henry Gathigira and George Mbugguss.
But Ochieng will be remembered more as a bridge that linked this pioneer generation to the mid-stream professionals he worked with through the one-party State and “second liberation” era. He also authored two books,
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