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The coronavirus pandemic has hit Japan’s economy hard and many factories, including those of carmakers, are scaling back production.
Foreign workers are particularly vulnerable, with a weaker support network and language barriers that prevent them from seeking government help, Reuters reports.
Union groups, labour lawyers and nonprofit organisations say foreign workers are the first to lose jobs in “corona cuts”, which they fear may expand to the kind of mass layoffs seen in the 2008 financial crisis.
New Zealand has had a second straight day of no new cases of Covid-19 cases recorded, as the government considers whether to further relax the country’s lockdown restrictions.
Yesterday was the first time since before New Zealand’s national shutdown began on 25 March that there were no new cases of the virus diagnosed.
There are four people in hospital with the illness, down from seven yesterday. There have been no additional deaths reported. 20 people have died of the coronavirus in New Zealand.
88% of the 1,486 people with confirmed or probable Covid-19 have now recovered, according the Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand’s director-general of health, who is currently giving a news conference in Wellington.
“Of course we must stick to the plan,” Bloomfield told reporters. “The worst thing we could do is celebrate success early before the full time whistle blows.”
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