Inside a small, dimly lit room in Uganda’s capital, unused bales of fabric stacked high behind Richard Wambuga are bright with color. But they are a testimony of the setbacks his tailoring business has come up against since the beginning of the pandemic.

First, various restrictions put in place by the government in June 2020 to curb the spread of the coronavirus robbed him of his clientele. Fewer people were buying new clothes, including school children who had shifted to virtual learning and no longer needed school uniforms.

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