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Hits and misses as businesses grapple with Covid fallout Thursday December 31 2020 One year later, the nightmare that is Covid-19 is still wreaking havoc on livelihoods and economies globally. In Kenya, many people including policymakers thought Covid-19 was one of the passing clouds such as Swine, Bird and Ebola viruses that the world was used to seeing every few years, and which the country had always been lucky to avoid. The World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic on March 19, 2020, just six days after Kenya had recorded her first case. In late 2019, an outbreak of pneumonia-like illness whose cause was unknown emerged in Wuhan, Hubei, China, but it was business as usual for the rest of the world, oblivious of the looming health, social and economic effects. ....