Canada’s unemployment rate stands at 13%, the second-highest ever recorded. Statistics Canada said the unemployment rate would be even higher -- nearly 18% -- if those who were not actively looking for work were included.
At least 2 million Canadians lost their jobs in April, taking the country’s total unemployment rate to 13%.The lives of people across the world could face “significant alteration” until a coronavirus vaccine is developed, said Dr. Mike Ryan, the executive director of the World Health Organization health emergencies program.
The European Union has acknowledged it allowed the Chinese government to censor an opinion piece published in the country, removing a reference to the origin of the coronavirus outbreak and its subsequent spread worldwide.The monarch has likened the British public's response to the coronavirus pandemic with the efforts of its soldiers during World War II, in a televised speech delivered exactly 75 years after her father marked the end of fighting in Europe.
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