A worker delivers food inside a McDonald s after over 700 restaurants of the fast-food chain reopened with a dine-in service as business restrictions imposed to combat coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic eased, in London, Britain on July 22, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]
The ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Britain s job market has been highlighted by new figures from the Office for National Statistics, or ONS, showing that unemployment levels in the three months to December were at their highest for nearly five years.
The statistics reveal that, from October to December, 1.74 million people were unemployed, an increase of 454,000 on the same period a year earlier, and the most severely affected age bracket was those aged under 25.
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