Kenyan families and businesses spent Sh16.29 billion in the first seven months of Covid restrictions to import telecommunications equipment such as laptops, smartphones, computers and networking devices to set up remote work stations.
The expenditure in April-October 2020 was Sh7.45 billion, or 84.28 percent, more than the Sh8.84 billion reported in a similar period a year earlier, according to provisional data collated by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).
