How Chinese exported Kenya PPEs before first Covid-19 case Monday May 03 2021 By OTIATO GUGUYU Chinese nationals living in Kenya last year used seven planes to repatriate Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) to their home country ahead of Nairobi reporting its first coronavirus case, regulatory filings in the US indicate. China Southern Airlines flight filling its annual report at the US Security Exchange Commission as a foreign issuer revealed it had flown 3,000 boxes from Nairobi to Guangzhou on February 3, 2020, and had done seven such trips. Acute shortage The onset of the coronavirus pandemic was marked by an acute shortage of surgical masks and protective equipment export bans and disruption of flights that severed supply chains.