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Business: Over 30 million People Loses Job In East Africa Due To Coronavirus

Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 08:14 am

Africa has been hit hard with the coronavirus pandemic, especially East Africa which has seen over 30 million people loose their job due to the coronavirus pandemic. People has either been retrench or has vacated their post due to inconveniences in their salaries.

At the point when the COVID-19 pandemic sent the worldwide economy into a downturn, the East Africa locale was not saved,” as per another report distributed on Wednesday by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), entitled Economic and Social Impacts of COVID-19 in Eastern Africa.

Introducing the report during the progressing 24 gathering of the Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts, Mama Keita, Head of ECA in Eastern Africa, said that the area “will scarcely develop in 2020 with just four nations on target to encounter positive development in 2020,” as indicated by an ECA proclamation gave on Wednesday.

As pharmaceutical company develops a cure for the coronavirus, those who has lost their jobs will seek new jobs so that they can take care of their family members in this trying times.

Albert Echetah

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