Lockdown purge: Survey sees one other 1.2 million layoffs as Covid-19 batters small companies

The BeyondCOVID Business Survey shows again that more SMEs had closed by the fourth quarter of 2020 than in the first months of the lockdown. Non-profit BeyondCOVID has released the results of its second survey on the impact of the pandemic on businesses.A year later, compared to the first few months of the lockdown, more