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Coronavirus takes toll on cost of inputs for companies

The effects of the coronavirus that has so far claimed more than 3,000 lives globally continue to bite locally.

According to the Purchasers Managers Index (PMI) by Stanbic Bank and IHS Markit, there was a drop in business activity that culminated in new orders falling, touching a two-year low.

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