Image copyright EPA A total of 81% of the global workforce of 3.3 billion people have had their workplace fully or partly closed.
Restrictions on daily life have led to the closure of many companies and the laying off of staff – either permanently or temporarily.
The International Labour Organization (ILO), an agency of the United Nations, has been looking at the global impact with a series of charts.
Their work shows the global scale of the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
“Workers and businesses are facing catastrophe, in both developed and developing economies,” said ILO director general Guy Ryder.
“We have to move fast, decisively, and together. The right, urgent, measures, could make the difference between survival and collapse.”
Source:bbc.com