Step up social safety nets for most needy

For no reason of their own, millions of people around the world have no work to go to, or an income for that matter. Obviously, with the close of businesses in many countries due to lockdowns to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, getting work, even in the largest economies, has become an impossible task for the majority.

The number of jobless people keeps increasing, with the US leading the numbers of people out of a job. But not many people are as lucky as US citizens, where the government has been writing cheques to cushion those registered from the lack of a livelihood, in addition to the enormous economic stimulus package to jumpstart businesses on reopening.