Last week saw social media chatter on sightings of Mt Kenya and Kilimanjaro from Nairobi. No doubt due to improved air quality, a by-product of the curfews. With households now cooking three meals daily, indoor air pollution for urban low income groups who cook with charcoal or kerosene is high. Statistics show over 75 percent of Kenyans cook with solid fuels.
For environmentalists and medics, indoors air pollution is relevant, not just because 40 percent of childhood deaths are attributed to respiratory illnesses, but also because both coronavirus and carbon-monoxide are associated with altered functioning of the haemoglobin moiety, a crucial component of human physiology blood- oxygen transport.
