Kenya health minister says all in-person meetings suspended to contain COVID-19 spread

Kenya's health minister said on Friday the government had suspended all in-person meetings countrywide to contain the spread of COVID-19, whose spread in the country he now attributes to the Delta variant.

Mutahi Kagwe said in a televised address that the government had asked public and private sector employers to allow their workers to work from home, unless they were classified as essential services.