Got the update today, I'm not one of the staff considered essential to keep the business ticking over for the next two months. I'm furloughed, so on reduced pay, but not expected to do any work. Still working as normal today, and sort of tomorrow (I was due to do a half day anyway) but then nothing again until June.
You will be paid 80% of your normal salary (as at 28th February 2020) up to a maximum of £2,500 per month. This payment will be made via payroll and subject to normal Income Tax and National Insurance deductions.
It's only because I've been so frugal all the time that I can afford to do this really. Having a cheap phone deal, rubbish broadband, no subscriptions to anything.
Nearly at 20,000 cases now.
This table is possibly in the wrong order, it is my cheeky scraping script that has done it. Odd we have so few recoveries reported in the UK.
| Country | cases | deaths | recovered |
|---|---|---|---|
| USA | 144,280 | 2,597 | 4,573 |
| Italy | 97,689 | 10,779 | 13,030 |
| Spain | 85,195 | 7,340 | 16,780 |
| China | 81,470 | 3,304 | 75,700 |
| Germany | 63,929 | 560 | 9,211 |
| Iran | 41,495 | 2,757 | 13,911 |
| France | 40,174 | 2,606 | 7,202 |
| UK | 19,522 | 1,415 | 135 |
| Switzerland | 15,526 | 333 | 1,823 |
| Belgium | 11,899 | 513 | 1,527 |
| Netherlands | 11,750 | 864 | 250 |
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