Coronavirus could kill livelihoods of almost half the global workforce: ILO

Noah Manskar
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:10:53 -0400

Some 1.6 billion workers making up nearly half of the global workforce could lose their livelihoods to the coronavirus crisis, international officials warn. Those at-risk workers have jobs in the “informal economy” that won’t pay them if they get sick or stay home amid widespread lockdowns aimed at controlling the deadly virus, according to the...