The county’s security department has promised to arrest parents whose children shall be found swimming in the ocean as the devolved unit intensifies the war against Covid-19. The administrator said children found loitering around the Lamu Island streets or swimming in the Indian Ocean, when the country and the world is battling Coronavirus, will be arrested. We will also arrest the parents whose children are found to be swimming on the shores of the Indian Ocean across Lamu. Swimming breaches social distancing. “I have been seeing tens of children swimming in groups, particularly at the Lamu Kenya Ports Authority jetty.

Source: Daily Nation May 15, 2020 06:22 UTC