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Pandemic Ends Almost 10 Years Of Consistent Job Development In The U.S.– 4/3/20, 8: 52 a.m.
For the very first time in nearly 10 years, the U.S. economy lost tasks in the month of March, ending a record-breaking streak of job growth, according to the Bureau of Labor Stats. The unemployment rate reached 4.4%, after a 50- year low of 3.5%.
The real unemployment rate and number of job losses are even greater since the BLS report does not consist of the data from the past 2 weeks, when a growing number of businesses have closed down and laid off staff members. Nearly 10 million Americans have actually looked for unemployment benefits throughout this duration.
— Marina Fang
Prince Charles Opens New London Health Center Via Video Link — 4/3/20, 7: 20 a.m. ET
Prince Charles has officially opened a brand-new 4,000- bed short-lived medical facility at a London exhibition center, after himself being detected with COVID-19 in March. The National Health Service Nightingale Hospital has been constructed to deal with coronavirus patients at the ExCel center in east London.
Speaking from his home in Scotland by means of video link, the prince paid tribute to workers who constructed the facility and frontline employees throughout the UK who are caring for those struck by the coronavirus outbreak. The Nightingale, called after nursing leader Florence Nightingale, will need an army of up to 16,000 staff in scientific and supplementary roles to keep it running.
” It is, without doubt, a magnificent and almost astounding task of operate in every sense, from its speed of building and construction– in simply nine days as we have actually heard– to its size and the skills of those who have actually developed it. An example, if ever one was required, of how the difficult could be made possible and how we can accomplish the unthinkable through human will and resourcefulness,” Charles stated.
— James Martin