More women out of jobs as coronavirus pushes unemployment to 4 million

 Covid-19 has been lethal to women’s livelihoods, with almost half of them rendered jobless (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid-19 has so far not been as harsh to women’s lives, with more males than females succumbing to the deadly respiratory disease.

However, if the latest data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) is anything to go by, the disease has been lethal to women’s livelihoods, with almost half of them rendered jobless by the pandemic.