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Coronavirus: Workers describe being hit by job losses and uncertainty NewsColony Image caption Holly was on a £30,000 salary and 45-hour contract Life in the UK has largely been put on hold, hitting businesses and their employees hard. Many sectors have already seen widespread redundancies, with firms warning thousands more jobs could be wiped out. “I’m not angry, I don’t blame anyone,” says Holly Eyre, 28. She has moved back home with her parents in Leeds, after being made redundant from her “dream job” of managing a bar and restaurant in Newcastle, where she has lived for the past eight years. Ms Eyre says around half the staff at the independent restaurant have been let go because of the virus. “Moments after the advice came [to avoid non-essential travel], we started receiving cancellation calls,” she says. “As a brand new member of the team, I’d only been there a couple of weeks,” she says. Ms Eyre, who is also a trained English teacher, says she is going to change job...