US Federal Reserve Bank has released a statement saying that the US citizens who gain less than forty thousand dollars annually lost their jobs in higher rates due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
The statement, entitled "The Economic Welfare of the US Families", made clear that the consequences of the deadly virus affect badly the less-income people. The bank's statement based on a poll conducted in April.
About 20% of citizens of the United States of America (USA) were polled throughout last month.
According to the results of the poll, the pollsters said that as of the beginning of March when the pandemic started to spread, people in USA started to lose their jobs, compelled to go on holidays or enforced to work for lesser hours weekly.
The statement of the Federal Reserve Bank explained that only 19% of those who gain an annual income ranges between $40 to 100 thousand dollars have lost their jobs since the inception of the pandemic in the USA.
On the other hand, only 13% of those who gain more than $ 100 thousand lost their jobs. These percentages mean that the poorer people are the most inflicted by the deadly virus.
Along with losing jobs, income of big numbers of the Americans slid down in March. About 23% of US citizens gained lesser income in March compared to the levels of February this year. Those who lost their jobs or enforced to reduce their weekly work hours, expect to face many hardships when they try to foot their bills.
The USA tops the list of the infection with the Coronavirus.
Up to Saturday morning, more than 1,457 US citizens were infected with Coronavirus meanwhile, 87 thousand deaths were registered there.
Across the world, some 4,525 million confirmed cases were recorded in various parts of the globe and more than 303 thousand deaths were registered according to "World Meter" website.
But a Russian professor has revealed sensitive information of the Coronavirus and other strains of the same family. He denied manufacturing the deadly virus in the laboratory. However, he warned of a new wave of the virus that may hit the world next autumn.
Dr. Cyril Charchov, head of the Laboratory of Testing the Environment of Viruses and the Researches of Basic Medicine, said that it is impossible to produce the Coronavirus in the laboratory.
Charchov pointed out that such claims were circulated across the social media outlets when the viruses appeared years ago. Thoses viruses include SARS-CoV and MERS- CoV.
Since then, researchers have started examining all the viruses of the corona family.
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