Pandemic pushes 2 million Kenyans into poverty

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Households in Kenya have been hit hard by job losses and lower earnings. PHOTO | FILE | NMG

Kenya’s economy will contract by between 1 percent and 1.5 percent this year, as concerns of a second wave of Covid-19 raises uncertainty over the country’s economic recovery.

Economic and social disruptions induced by the Covid-19 pandemic have eroded progress in poverty reduction in Kenya, forcing an estimated two million more into poverty, according to the World Bank’s 22nd report of the Kenya Economic Update, Navigating the Pandemic.