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The pandemic destroyed 125 million jobs

The impact of the pandemic on the labor market will be more severe than initially estimated, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO). It estimates 4.3 % of the hours worked lost worldwide in 2021 compared to the levels in the fourth quarter of 2019, which equates to the destruction…
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Blizzard canceled its 2022 event

The American video game studio Blizzard canceled the annual Blizzconline conference, in which it usually announces its upcoming releases and news and which it planned to hold in early 2022. The decision was taken after the cases of…
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The US Treasury will keep the control of inflation

"I do not think we are going to lose control of inflation," said the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Janet Yellen, although she recognizes that the prices of products and services will continue to increase until the middle…
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El Salvador is heading towards economic recovery

Authorities of El Salvador announced that it will be the only country in Central America that by the end of 2021 will have recovered the levels of economic activity registered before the Covid-19 pandemic. This was reported by Douglas…
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North Korea faces a “bad economic situation”

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un acknowledged that the country is experiencing a bad economic situation, urging senior officials to focus on improving the "quality of life" of the population. In the framework of the celebration of the 76th…

The US will allow tourists from the EU from November

The White House announced that it is lifting the travel restrictions that were in force in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, allowing since the beginning of November the entry of international passengers from the European Union (EU)…
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UK sets records for job openings

The United Kingdom registered 29.06 million workers in the month of August, which means recovering the level of employment that was observed in February 2020, before the Covid-19 pandemic began to affect the economy of the country,…
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Zoom will have automatic translation

Zoom announced the arrival of its platform to Oculus from Horizon Workrooms and the implementation of machine translation along with the expansion of real-time transcription by the end of the year. The technology company shared in its…
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In Latin America 70 % of jobs are informal

About 70 % of the jobs generated from mid-2020 to the first quarter of 2021 in several Latin American countries have been in informal conditions, according to a new report by the International Labor Organization (ILO), which has called for…
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WHO opens hub on pandemic and epidemics in Berlin

The World Health Organization (WHO) inaugurated an Intelligence Center on Pandemics and Epidemics in Berlin, whose mission will be to provide nations with the best data and research that will allow timely decision-making for the detection…