Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta lifted and scaled back some anti-Covid-19 measures, including reopening schools and freeing travel in and out of Nairobi.

In a May Day speech Kenyatta cited a 74 per cent drop in infections in the capital from March to April and a drop of 89pc in the country's second largest city of Mombasa, according to AFP.

Travel into and out of Nairobi and surrounding counties is now allowed and its curfew has been shortened to reflect the 10pm to 4am ban in effect in the rest of the country.

Schools, which have been shut since the end of March, will reopen from May 10.

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