Jim Chalmers: 31,000 Australians missing work each day because of long Covid | The Guardian
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The treasurer has gone on to those figures reported to News Corp papers mentioned earlier:
Another challenge in the economy is obviously the ongoing impact of Covid. Our labour market has been absolutely smashed by Covid and by long Covid increasingly. Now, we’ve released numbers that show something like 31,000 Australians are missing work each day because of the impacts of long Covid, as part of a bigger challenge that we have with managing Covid itself.
So, whether it’s labour shortages, the impact of long Covid, concentrated disadvantage, and long-term unemployment in communities like this one, there’s no shortage of issues for us to grapple with at the local level and at the national level as well.