UK govt to pay 80% of wages of workers to protect jobs affected by Covid-19

To all those at home right now, anxious about the days ahead, I say this: you will not face this alone, Rishi Sunak said

To all the Britishers anxious about the days ahead, UK's Indian-origin finance minister Rishi Sunak said: you will not face this alone, as he unveiled an unprecedented multi-billion pound package aimed at protecting people's jobs through coronavirus pandemic which is crippling the global economy.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer once again took centre-stage in UK's COVID-19 fightback and struck a note of compassion as he joined British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at Downing Street on Friday evening to announce that the government would step in to cover 80 per cent of the wages of those unable to work, so that companies