State of the media report Q1-2021 A depiction of the COVID-19 trajectory7 Overall the socio-political environment in the quarter was not favourable as indicated by the few occurrences discussed above as well as the alerts compiled in the appendix section. The quarter was marred by continued attacks on media houses by cadres, among other incidents, thereby creating an atmosphere of self-censorship. The resurgence of violent attacks against media houses is a deterioration of some of the positive developments witnessed in the previous quarter. The majority of respondents described the political environment in the first quarter of 2021 as “mostly unfree” as shown in the chart below. home-based care solutions such as steaming, as proven remedies for covid-19. The President also directed enforcement officers to make citizens abide by the COVID-19 guidelines without necessarily harassing them. 7 Graph courtesy of COVID-19 Data Repository by the Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. See https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 17