In Australia, more than 138 thousand people lost their job during a quarantine introduced in the country in the summer due to the distribution of the Indian strain of coronavirus. This is reported by TASS with reference to the National Bureau of Statistics.
According to the department, the unemployment rate in Australia rose to 4.6 percent. The greatest number of people lost jobs in the states New South Wales and Victoria, as well as in the metropolitan region.
“People lose their jobs or go to the abbreviated schedule, it is still very difficult to maintain activity in the labor market during isolation,” the bureau stressed. It is noted that the thick-populated districts of the country suffered the strongest from the COVID-19 pandemic.
In September in Australia, every weekend occurred mass clashes of opponents of vaccination from coronavirus with the police, they hit the video. During the riots, dozens of law enforcement officers were injured, several hundred people were detained.