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Covid-19 hits soft drinks and milk sales

The partial closure of the economy, including schools and hotels, to contain the spread of Covid-19 has devastated producers of milk and soft drinks.

New data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that formal milk intake and soft drink production declined by at least a fifth in the period when the country enforced stringent social containment measures.

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