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UK economy shrank more than 20% in April amid Covid-19 lockdown

FRANCE24, 12 Jun 2020
Britain's economy shrank by a record 20.4% in April from March as the country spent the month in a tight coronavirus lockdown, official data showed on Friday in what is likely to be the bottom of the crash before a long and slow recovery.

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