The chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce new measures today to help companies pay workers, after business leaders warned that they’re on the brink of collapse.In a fresh wave of investor uncertainty, the value of the pound has dropped to its lowest since the 1980s.The chancellor has announced a £350 billion bundle to shore up the ailing economy.The government issued new advice yesterday, urging everyone to avoid non-essential social contact in a new effort to suppress the spread of the virus.The pandemic is having a huge impact on economies worldwide, but it’s not the whole story.Up to 50 million people working in travel and tourism could lose their jobs as a result of the global coronavirus outbreak, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). Yesterday, chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered his first Budget, with headline-grabbing spending promises to tackle coronavirus and its economic impacts.The FTSE 100 suffered its biggest fall in a single day since 2008 financial crash.The price of crude oil is crashing, and global stock markets are hating it.Prepping for Brexit cost UK taxpayers £4.4 billion according to the public spending watchdog.The airline has gone into administration, putting over 2,000 jobs at risk.The Government has published plans to deal with the coronavirus outbreak. It says that if we end up with an epidemic, up to one fifth of the UK workforce could be off sick at once during the peak. 
