ALAM from ONP: Coronavius is ruining the lives of half the world's workers

Of the total of global workers of 3.3 billion people, about 2 billion work in <x0-economic informal”, with short-term contracts or even as self-employed and have already suffered a drop in income of about 60 percent in the first month of the crisis. Of these, 1.6 billion face the risk of destroying their lives, reports The Guardian, the Periscope.

“This shows the most terrible thing that the crisis with unemployment and its consistencys is deepening compared to the estimates of the first three weeks,” said UN agency General Manager Guy Ryder.

For millions of workers, there will be no income, no food, no security, no future. Millions of businesses worldwide are barely breathing,” Ryder said further. “They have no savings or access to credit. These are real working faces. If we don't help them now, they'll just disappear. ”

South and northern America are the most infected regions after the recent outbreak of the virus through the United States and Brazil, but self-employed workers in Europe were also at risk of eliminating their lifestyle.

All this crisis so far has been translated into a decline in revenues for informal workers of 81 percent in Africa, North and South America, 21.6 percent in Asia and the Pacific, and 70 percent in Europe and Central Asia.

The ONP has recommended that this difficult situation for workers more vulnerable to this crisis make governments expand their Emergency Packages and include “flexible and targeted measures to help workers and businesses, especially small enterprises, those in the informal economy and others at risk. ”

Neither has the Kosovo government included any assistance to the informal economy. /Periscope