The United Nations said on Tuesday that the new Corona virus threatens the livelihood of about 1.25 billion workers, warning of the "worst global crisis" since World War II.

In a new study, the International Labor Organization warned that the outbreak of the Corona virus and the strict measures imposed to contain the epidemic, will reduce working hours globally in the second quarter of 2020 by 6.7%.

The international organization indicated that this proportion equals 195 million full-time workers.

The study comes at a time when the number of new infections of the Corona virus - which first appeared in China at the end of last year - exceeded 1.35 million cases globally, including more than 75 thousand deaths, according to a census of the French Press Agency based on official sources.

The report concluded that the Asia-Pacific region will witness the largest decrease in working hours, equivalent to 125 million full-time job cuts over the next three months.

"The epidemic is causing very serious repercussions" for the world's workforce, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder said in a video conference.

"Just over four out of five workers reside in a country that has imposed a total or partial closure," Ryder added, noting that 81% of the world’s estimated 3.3 billion people are affected.

The organization said it expects various groups to suffer "tremendous losses", especially in middle-income countries, and announced that the repercussions recorded so far "exceed the effects of the financial crisis that the world witnessed between 2008 and 2009."

The organization warned that the number of people who have been unemployed this year due to the epidemic is expected to be "much higher" than 25 million, knowing that this number had been expected by the organization two weeks ago.

This will add to the nearly 190 million people who were unemployed in 2019 before the start of the pandemic.

In the last two weeks, the Covid-19 epidemic intensified and spread globally, with major public health ramifications and unprecedented shocks to the nation's economy and labor markets.

"It is the worst global crisis since the Second World War," the organization said, explaining that 1.25 billion people are currently teaching in sectors facing the risk of increased exchange of work and deduction from salaries.

And considered that "many of those get low salaries and do work that does not require great skills, in which the sudden loss of income is destructive."

The organization called for wide-ranging coordinated measures to help employers and workers overcome the crisis, including substantial corporate support, incentive measures, and more.

"The choices we make today directly affect the course of the crisis and the lives of billions of people," Ryder said, stressing that by imposing appropriate measures we can reduce its repercussions.

"We have to rebuild better so that our new systems are safer, more equitable and more durable than the ones that allowed the crisis to happen," he added.