NAIROBI, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's economy contracted by 5.7 percent in the second quarter of 2020 compared to an expansion of 5.3 percent in a similar period of 2019, the government statistics agency said on Thursday.
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) said that although Kenya was somehow spared the severe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter, the economy was significantly affected by the disease in the second quarter of 2020.
