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Has Covid become a LIC disease
HOW ENGLAND HAS REACTED TO COVID
4.9% unemployment rate
11m jobs since the pandemic began, and 4.7m workers were on furlough at the end of February. The scheme will continue until the end of September.
Since the early days of the crisis last March, 813,000 payroll jobs have disappeared, including 355,000 in hotels, restaurants and pubs, and 171,000 in shops.
Workers in hospitality, retail and entertainment have been badly hit. These jobs have seen the biggest impact from Covid restrictions.
4.44 million cases
128,000 dead from C
HOW BILLIONAIRES HAVE PERSONALLY HELPED WITH COVID
The report said that Mr Bezos's worth had climbed so much between March-September 2020 that he could have given all 876,000 Amazon employees a $105,000 bonus and still have been as wealthy as he was before the pandemic.
Mr Bezos was said to have donated $125m to the coronavirus effort.
Oxfam claims that the billionaires' fortunes rose due to rebounding stock markets and a "rigged economy", causing rising inequality during the "worst economic downturn in a century".
MacKenzie Scott revealed she had donated more than $4bn to food banks and emergency relief funds in four months.
The combined wealth of the world's 10 richest men rose by $540bn (£400bn) during the pandemic, according to Oxfam.
“Hunger is solvable,” he said. “This can be solved with significant support from ultra high net worth individuals.”
"We think that this is an opportunity to do something radical about building back fairer to think about wealth taxes, to think about corporation taxes, to think about increasing the basic social floor for every citizen," Danny Sriskandarajah, Oxfam's chief executive told the BBC. With reference to the UK, he said imposing a tax could raise millions.
What HIC have done to help the LIC/ IMPACTS OF COVID ON LIC
The UK will send £200m in aid to help developing nations battle coronavirus.
Britain's total contribution to the global effort to halt the pandemic to £744m.
The Bank of England has increased the number of central banks it supports due to the impact of coronavirus, and the existing programme will run until 2022.
Another £50m will boost the Red Cross in difficult to reach areas such as those affected by armed conflict
Bank of England experts supported central banks, including in LIC, on internal risk management, assessing risks to the banking sector, developing foreign currency markets helping reduce the risk of sharp rises in import prices and
spiralling inflation including of food.
While the US has about 33 intensive care unit (ICU) beds per 100,000 population, the ratio is around 2 per 100,000 in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in South Asia
Even basic hygiene and other prescribed sanitary measures are not easy when even clean running water is scarce
IMPACTS OF COVID
People in some of the countries worst stricken by starvation, including Afghanistan, Yemen and Burkina Faso, have suffered less from the virus itself than the indirect impacts
increased difficulties of reaching people in remote areas because of travel restrictions imposed due to Covid.
Head of World Food Program USA says 235 million people ‘marching toward starvation
Earth’s atmosphere has seen significant reductions in some air pollutants. However, scientists wanted to know how much of that decline can be attributed to changes in human activity during pandemic-related shutdowns, versus how much would have occurred in a pandemic-free 2020.
pandemic restrictions have reduced global nitrogen dioxide concentrations by nearly 20%
A 60% decrease in Milan and a 45% decrease in New York followed shortly, as their local restrictions went into effect. (Nitrogen dioxide emissions)
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdown caused 114 million people to lose their jobs over 2020.
$3.7 trillion in lost labor income.
COVID-19 HAS TRIGGERED A STEEP INCREASE IN DEBT, PARTICULARLY IN EMERGING MARKET AND DEVELOPING ECONOMIES