Most hotel staff still out of work despite Covid easing

Less than half of the hotel workers who were actively employed before the Covid-19 pandemic hit Kenya had resumed work by the end of September, with the sector still grappling with low customer numbers three months since the government started re-opening the economy.

A Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) survey shows that only 44 percent of hotel staff in Nairobi had resumed work by end of last month while in other parts of the country it was 45 percent, relative to the employment numbers in February.