When news of the novel coronavirus broke out, those us in Kenya, where I'm located, thought it would go away without ever causing havoc we have seen. After all, Africa has had its own share viral outbreaks, such as Ebola, bag mixed fortune, but emerged out these outbreaks. In any case, previous outbreaks Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute (SARS) left unscathed. We were wro...