Despite reopening, some jobs lost to virus are gone for good

Employees wearing protective face shields stand beyond acrylic sheets at check out counters inside a supermarket in Samut Prakan, Thailand. Many in Thailand have lost their jobs due to the virus-driven recession that’s accelerating decline in struggling industries and upheaval across the global workforce. - Bloomberg

BANGKOK (AP): Factories and stores are reopening, economies are reawakening - but many jobs just aren’t coming back.

That’s the harsh truth facing workers laid off around the US and the world, from restaurants in Thailand to car factories in France, whose livelihoods fell victim to a virus-driven recession that’s accelerating decline in struggling industries and upheaval across the global workforce.