Scores of Covid-19 patients filmed escaping from Kenya’s isolation centre

Some Kenyans filmed escaping from a COVID-19 quarantine centre will be hunted down and sent back there, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said.

“We know you and we will find you,” he said, adding that the escapees were putting the lives of others at risk.

The warning came after a video clip went viral showing several people scaling a wall to flee a quarantine centre in the capital, Nairobi.

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Those in forced quarantine have been complaining about poor conditions. They say some centres are not much better than prisons, with poor hygiene and complaints that social distancing is impossible because of overcrowding.

Others are angered about having to pay for their confinement, which costs between $20 and $100 a night – depending on the centre

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