38 mln jobs lost in East Africa due to COVID-19 pandemic: report


  • World
  • Thursday, 26 Nov 2020

ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Eastern Africa region's labour market has been the worst hit on the continent from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as an estimated 38 million jobs lost.

"When the COVID-19 pandemic sent the global economy into a recession, the East Africa region was not spared," according to a new report published on Wednesday by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), entitled Economic and Social Impacts of COVID-19 in Eastern Africa.

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