China News Service, April 9th, according to Agence France-Presse, on the 9th local time, the US Department of Labor said that the pandemic of the New Corona virus caused the closure of some US companies and the number of people applying for unemployment relief continued to increase. As of the week of April 4, the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits for the first time reached 6.6 million.
Reported that this data is slightly lower than the 6.9 million people in the previous week. Statistics show that since mid-March, nearly 17 million people in the United States have lost their jobs.
Analysts pointed out that due to the continuous spread of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic and the lag of the data, the US employment data may be more severe in the next few months.