Coronavirus's economic toll will undo decades of progress in narrowing the gender poverty gap, according to new UN data, which estimates that a further 47 million women and girls will be pushed into poverty.
COVID-19-related job losses are estimated to hit women the worst in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, according to new UN estimates.
Women are also more likely to work in the informal economy, typically in jobs as domestic workers and cleaners that often come with little or no health care, unemployment benefits or other protections. CoOVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, which represents more than 1,400 families, wants a public inquiry into the UK Government's handling of the pandemic.
Saskia Esken, a co-leader of the centre-left Social Democrats, used the term in a tweet on August 1 as around 20,000 people demonstrated in Berlin.Police ultimately ended the rally because organisers failed to get participants to keep their distance or wear masks. More than 40 per cent of South Korea's new coronavirus victims are older than 60, fuelling a surge in the numbers of those severely or critically ill, health authorities said on Wednesday.
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