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Covid-19 batters global economy, jobs - even without 2nd wave: OECD report

With or without a second outbreak, the consequences will be severe and long-lasting, the report says

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Health worker collects swab sample from a woman to test for the COVID-19 coronavirus, at PMGP Colony in Dharavi on Saturday.

BS Web TeamPTI New Delhi
The novel coronavirus crisis has triggered the worst global recession in nearly a century -- and the pain is not over yet even if there is no second wave of infections, an international economic report warned Wednesday.

Hundreds of millions of people have lost their jobs, and the crisis is hitting the poor and young people the hardest, worsening inequalities, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in its latest analysis of global economic data.

It is probably the most uncertain and dramatic outlook since the creation of the OECD, Secretary General Angel Gurria said. We cannot make projections as

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