Coronavirus Pandemic ‘Amplifying’ Poverty In UK

File: A member of the ambulance services assists in moving a patient from an ambulance to St Thomas’ Hospital in London on March 31, 2020, as the country is under lockdown due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Tolga AKMEN / AFP.The coronavirus pandemic is increasing poverty in Britain, where levels are already high after a decade of austerity triggered by the global financial crisis, according to experts.

Over the past fortnight, almost one million adults in the UK have applied for Universal Credit, the government’s main form of state aid.“If families who were earning decent wages before the pandemic move on to the Universal Credit, they will very suddenly find themselves living in poverty,” said Louisa McGeehan, a director at Child Poverty Action Group UK.

“If those children are in households who don’t have Internet or don’t have a computer, they are not able to do that learning.” “Economically we know there is very likely to be a big recession and it’s difficult to recover quickly from a big recession,” said Innes. The Trussell Trust, which has a national network of 1,200 food banks, said it faced an “unprecedented challenge”.

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This channelstv is not serious you reporting poverty level in U.K. how is that the concern of us in Nigeria now ?

If UK has poverty then what do some countries in Africa have

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am sure they will survive. We that are in poverty already with wonderful government

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