Around 62% of people had lost their jobs during April-May 2020 when the “general holiday” was put in place to face the first wave of Covid-19.
Subsequently only 15% could get a job the following month, while 85% remained unemployed for a longer period, according to a survey by the Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD). Almost all of these people were able to find a job by February 2021 when the adverse impact of the first wave started to recede.
