Nairobi, Jan. 20 -- Driving into the Sankara Nairobi, one easily notices that the main entrance is locked, even though the five-star hotel re-opened way back in September.
Guests use a smaller side gate to access the hotel since it shut down for more than five months in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that was first reported in the country in March last year.
"We are operating just one wing of the hotel since reopening, one was closed down. And even then, we are operating at between 15 and 20 per cent capacity, down from the former 65 per cent annual average," Krishna Unni, the Sankara Group general manager, said in a statement on Tuesday.
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