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AUSTRALIA: Just to recap the earlier release: "The Accommodation and food

services industry continued to be the most impacted by COVID-19, with a drop of

around one in three paid jobs in the industry from mid-March to mid-April,

according to new data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today. The

Weekly Payroll Jobs and Wages in Australia estimates also showed that between 14

March and 18 April (the five weeks after Australia recorded its 100th confirmed

COVID-19 case) total employee jobs decreased by 7.5%, while total wages paid by

employers decreased by 8.2%. Head of Labour Statistics at the ABS, Bjorn Jarvis,

said: "The industries which lost the most jobs continued to be Accommodation and

food services (-33.4%) and Arts and recreation services (-27.0%). "Job losses in

Accommodation and food services were greatest in South Australia (-39.7%) and

Victoria (-35.6%). "The new data shows that jobs in Accommodation and food

services worked by people aged 20-29 and people over 70 decreased the most

(-40.8% and -43.7%)." "Looking at the week-to-week changes, the decrease in the

number of jobs in the week ending 18 April was 1.5%, which was larger than the

0.3% decrease in week ending 11 April 2020," Mr Jarvis said."