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Why youth are hardest hit by Covid-19 economic carnage

Economic sectors that employ the most youth were the hardest hit by the containment measures aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19.

This saw many workers aged below 35 years rendered jobless, according to a quarterly report on employment by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).

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