Families await support amidst loss of large scale jobs and income sources, survey reveals

KATHMANDU: Approximately 53% of households have lost their jobs and 40% of them lost both jobs and other regular income sources, including remittances as of the third week of May since the enforcement of prohibitory orders to contain the second wave of coronavirus on April 29, a survey reveals.

According to a recent rapid survey conducted by Sharecast Initiative Nepal with support from UNICEF during the third quarter of May 2021, agriculture and tourism, being the biggest employment industries, including daily wagers are most likely to incur the most significant economic losses due to the lockdown.