It's been dizzyingly fast, but the last fortnight has turned everything we thought we knew about the economy on its head.

There's hardly a business in the country that won't have seen an impact from this.

Hundreds of thousands of people are grappling with the reality of losing their jobs.

You're seeing the worst of humankind at the same time as seeing the very best.

For the last few weeks we've been following the story of one business owner and his fight to keep his life's work afloat. Is the government's bailout

going to work? You're listening to stories of our times from The Times and the

Sunday Times. I'm Manveen Rana. Today, what does Corona mean for jobs? Hi, I'm Hena Yin. I live in London and I'm 27 years old. I was working as a content

curator for an organization up until a few weeks ago when I was let go because of the

coronavirus. The organization I worked for has a huge

event every year in February. It's 10,000 plus people and they had to make the call to cancel it because of the coronavirus.

My honest opinion is that they made the right choice, but unfortunately it resulted in a huge financial hit and that meant that they had to let many contractors go and that included me.

Hello I'm Tom I'm 32 and a chef from London. Before COVID-19 I was due to open a restaurant for a small restaurant group

but was told last Tuesday that the project had been scrapped and that I was unemployed.

I'm sad about the restaurant but moreover I'm scared about what would be left of the

hospitality industry when this is all over.

I'm currently thinking about trying Pure based mainly in Central London.

Spencer is the co-founder of a string of healthy takeaway food shops.

The shorthand is that we're a bit like a pretement gait.

And the business is everything to him. My wife is called Jenny. We met in one of the shops about 12 years ago because she made a complaint. She hates the story but that is absolutely true. I owe everything to this

business. My whole life and family is linked to pure.

At the start of March, Spencer's business was at the height of its success after years of hard work.

We were so proud that we had won a competitive tender to be in one of the busiest airport terminals in the UK and in the world and

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