Coronavirus to wipe out equivalent of 195 million jobs, U.N. says

The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is expected to wipe out the equivalent of 195 million jobs around the world, the U.N. says.

is expected to wipe out the equivalent of 195 million full-time jobs around the world, according to the labor body of the United Nations.that COVID-19 was expected to cause a reduction of 6.7 percent in global working hours.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed from its website highly unusual guidance informing doctors on how to prescribe hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs recommended by President Donald Trump to treat the coronavirus.

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