The Covid-19 pandemic has made a lot of people not only loose their loved ones but also expecting to loose their daily source of income.
However, more than three million South Africans, mostly women, lost their jobs in just three months, between February and April 2020.
This is coming after a study conducted by National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), Coranavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (CRAM).
CRAM which is tasked with evaluating the impact COVID-19 had on employment and welfare of South Africans, released the report on Wednesday 15 July.
Of three million people who are now jobless due to COVID-19 women accounted for two million.
CRAM found that 17 million people had jobs in February 2020, but two months later as COVID-19 wreaked havoc that number dipped to 14 million.
“The coronavirus pandemic is the largest social and economic shock in our lifetime. The rapid spread of this virus around the world and the economic devastation it has left in its wake is unlike anything we have seen before, at least not in our lifetimes,”
