Global Health, Covid-19 and the State in East Africa

What have been the implications of Covid-19 for states in Africa? Has pandemic accelerated shift from US-led health governance a unipolar world to one where rise China is increasing scope action global south states? it added influence multilateral institutions, most notably WHO and African Union? Internally, capitalised on undermine constitutional orders put place with ‘refoundation’ many period since end Cold War? Can we draw larger conclusions regarding capacity effectiveness internally externally? These questions are addressed present article, focusing developments three East countries: Kenya, Tanzania Uganda.