We can pull economy out of Covid-19 gloom

Workers off load fertilizers from Nikitis Majuro Cargo Ship at Mombasa Port.[Omondi Onyango,Standard]

The Economic Survey released yesterday gives a rare glimpse of the damage the Covid-19 pandemic wrought on the economy in 2020. First, the economy grew at a shocking negative 0.3 per cent.

A total of 737,500 people lost their jobs last year after the pandemic forced companies to retrench and businesses to shut down during the Covid lockdown.