Skip to main content

Table 1 Response measures

From: COVID- 19 and human right to food: lived experiences of the urban poor in Kenya with the impacts of government’s response measures, a participatory qualitative study

Measure

Start date

End date

Daily curfew

27th March 2020

20th October 2021

Wearing of face masks

6th April 2020

11th March 2022

Ban on public gatherings

27th March 2020

11th March 2022

Social distancing

27th March 2020

11th March 2022

Movement restrictions (lockdowns)

16th March 2020

7th July 2020

Economic relief measures (tax relief and reduction of income tax, reduction of turnover tax, appropriation of cash to elderly and other vulnerable persons through cash transfers, temporary suspension of Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) listing, reduction of VAT from 16 to 14%, payment of pending bills, payment of verified VAT claims, lowering of Central Bank lending rates from 8.25 to 7.25%)

25th March 2020

1st January 2021 (for tax measures)

27th November 2020 (for cash transfers)

Encouragement of work from-home framework

27th March 2020