UK coronavirus lockdown 'will take more than 6.5million jobs out of economy'

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

Britain's coronavirus lockdown will take more than 6.5 million jobs out of the economy, according to estimates contained in a new study.

Research by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex says this equates to around a quarter of the UK's total jobs, with more than half the positions in certain sectors to be lost.

Accommodation and food services are predicted to suffer the worst rate of cuts, with 75.1% of jobs lost, or around 1.3 million positions.

Ranked second was "other services" at 50.2%, ahead of "wholesale, retail and repair of motor vehicles" at 47.6% - or roughly two million jobs.