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Shock and Disbelief Over the Government’s Request for Passengers to “Self-Quarantine”

by Eric Olander

Political cartoonists in Kenya are channeling the public’s anger over the government’s request to passengers arriving on the China Southern flight from Guangzhou to “self-quarantine” themselves for 14-days.

Cartoons like this circulated all weekend on Facebook and Twitter amid growing public outrage over the government’s handling of the Novel Coronavirus crisis.

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