UK ramps up £200 billion rescue
Coronavirus furlough scheme extended until end of March
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BRITISH Finance Minister Rishi Sunak further ramped up his £200 billion (S$353.8 billion) economic rescue programme on Thursday as England went into a tough new coronavirus lockdown.
Mr Sunak extended the government's costly coronavirus furlough scheme - which provides 80 per cent of the pay of temporarily laid-off workers - until the end of March, and said he would provide billions of pounds of other jobs support.
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