While that spurred more job creation early on, the country is now facing the worst of both worlds. New COVID-19 cases are mounting at a rate of a million a week, and deaths have reached new peaks approaching 3,000 daily. Even in places where the initial crash was less intense, more than 8% of jobs were lost from February to April. But the places that suffered the lightest initial blow also more quickly regained lost employment, and in some instances by June had nearly regained all the lost jobs in April's wave of layoffs and closing. By contrast, nursery and garden centre employment rocketed nearly 30% from February to June - a typical summertime jump.

Source: bd News24 December 07, 2020 11:48 UTC