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| - Features Editors: Hong Kong: Liz Thomas +852 2829 6211 Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 After reporting on the economic uncertainty for small- and medium-sized businesses from the long coronavirus lockdown, AFP has now met people from different countries suddenly having to struggle to make ends meet after losing their jobs in some of the worst-hit sectors. + Jobless and desperate: the post-lockdown reality for many Health-virus-economy-employment,FOCUS PARIS Many workers' lives have been abruptly upended by the coronavirus pandemic, as job losses in tourism, air travel, food and drink or other industries, hit those on fixed contracts and in the informal sector. AFP hears from people in several countries around the world who are or fear they soon will be unemployed about their despair, sacrifices, dashed hopes and fears for the future. 1,400 words by AFP reporters in Paris, Madrid, Kiev, Mexico City, Bogota and Washington. Pictures by Javier Soriano and Genya Savilov + China's two-child policy means more babies named after mum name China-gender-family,FEATURE BEIJING When Wang Rong gave birth to her second son, she reminded her husband of a promise he made even before their wedding: to let her pass on her family name if they had a child. 900 words by Matthew Knight and Poornima Weerasekara. Pictures by Wang Zhao. Video by Matthew Knight and Jessica Yang afp
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