Lockdown job losses and furloughs have seen millions pushed into poverty – but the wealth of the super-rich has soared during the coronavirus pandemic.
The fortunes of the world's 10 richest men have increased by half a trillion dollars – some £400billion – since the Covid crisis began in March 2020, according to a report from Oxfam.
The top ten on Oxfam’s super-rich list includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the man behind Tesla and Space X, Elon Musk.
The charitable coalition says the £400bn those ten men have made over the past nine months could be enough to prevent a global recession if it was distributed fairly – and there would be enough left over to pay for a worldwide vaccine rollout.While many.
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