en-us	The human dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic reach far beyond the critical health response.  
zh-cn	2019冠状病毒病全球大流行对人类的影响远远超出了关键的医疗卫生应对范畴。 

en-us	All aspects of our future will be affected– economic, social and developmental.  
zh-cn	我们未来的经济、社会和发展等方方面面都将受到本次疫情的影响。 

en-us	Our response must be urgent, coordinated and on a global scale, and should immediately deliver help to those most in need.  
zh-cn	因此，全球必须采取紧急、协调一致的应对措施，并立即采取行动帮助受疫情影响最严重的群体。 

en-us	From workplaces, to enterprises, to national and global economies, getting this right is predicated on social dialogue between governments and those on the front line – the employers and workers.  
zh-cn	从工作场所到企业，从国内到全球经济，有效应对疫情的的基础是政府与一线人员——雇主和工人—之间的社会对话。 

en-us	So that the 2020s don’t become a re-run of the 1930s.  
zh-cn	以此，才能避免在2020年代的今天重蹈1930年代的覆辙。 

en-us	ILO estimates are that as many as 25 million people could become unemployed, with a loss of workers’ income of as much as USD 3.4 trillion.  
zh-cn	国际劳工组织预计多达2500万人可能因此次疫情失业，劳动者因此损失的收入可多达3.4万亿美元。

en-us	However, it is already becoming clear that these numbers may underestimate the magnitude of the impact.  
zh-cn	然而，这些数字可能依然低估了疫情影响的严重程度。  

en-us	This pandemic has mercilessly exposed the deep faultlines in our labour markets.  
zh-cn	本次疫情全球大流行毫不留情地暴露了劳动力市场的深层缺陷。 

en-us	Enterprises of all sizes have already stopped operations, cut working hours and laid off staff.  
zh-cn	各种规模的企业都已经停止运营并削短工时或裁员。 

en-us	Many are teetering on the brink of collapse as shops and restaurants close, flights and hotel bookings are cancelled, and businesses shift to remote working.  
zh-cn	随着商店和餐馆停止营业，航班和酒店订单被取消，企业改为远程办公，许多劳动者都因此面临着岌岌可危的就业形势。 

en-us	Often the first to lose their jobs are those whose employment was already precarious - sales clerks, waiters, kitchen staff, baggage handlers and cleaners.  
zh-cn	危机面前，通常最先失业的是那些原本工作就很不稳定的劳动者——销售员、服务员、餐饮业员工、行李搬运工和清洁工。 

en-us	In a world where only one in five people are eligible for unemployment benefits, layoffs spell catastrophe for millions of families.  
zh-cn	目前，全球只有五分之一人口有失业保险，裁员给数百万家庭造成了灾难性后果。 

en-us	Because paid sick leave is not available to many carers and delivery workers - those we all now rely on – they are often under pressure to continue working even if they are ill. 
zh-cn	我们目前最需要的护理工人和快递员通常无法享受带薪病假，所以他们即使生病也不得不带病坚持工作。 

en-us	In the developing world, piece-rate workers, day labourers and informal traders may be similarly pressured by the need to put food on the table.  
zh-cn	在发展中国家，计件工、日工和小商贩则可能面临着温饱问题的现实压力。 

en-us	We will all suffer because of this.  
zh-cn	我们每一个人都会因此受到影响。 

en-us	It will not only increase the spread of the virus but in the longer-term dramatically amplify cycles of poverty and inequality.  
zh-cn	这不仅将增加病毒传播的风险，长远来看还将大幅拉长贫困和不平等的周期。  

en-us	We have a chance to save millions of jobs and enterprises, if governments act decisively to ensure business continuity, prevent layoffs and protect vulnerable workers.  
zh-cn	如果政府能够果断采取措施，保障企业业务的连续性，防止裁员，保护弱势劳动者，则可能挽救数以百万计的工作和企业。 

en-us	We should have no doubt that the decisions they take today will determine the health of our societies and economies for years to come.  
zh-cn	毫无疑问，政府今天采取的行动将会决定我们社会和经济今后的健康状况。 

en-us	Unprecedented, expansionary fiscal and monetary policies are essential to prevent the current headlong downturn from becoming a prolonged recession.  
zh-cn	为防止当前经济的快速下行演变成长期衰退，采取前所未有的扩张性财政和货币政策至关重要。 

en-us	We must make sure that people have enough money in their pockets to make it to the end of the week – and the next. 
zh-cn	我们必须保证人们口袋里有足够的钱来度过眼前的难关。 

en-us	This means ensuring that enterprises – the source of income for millions of workers – can remain afloat during the sharp downturn and so are positioned to restart as soon as conditions allow.  
zh-cn	这意味着我们要保证企业，即广大劳动者收入的来源能熬过这段经济快速下行时期并为后期恢复常态生产做好准备。 

en-us	In particular, tailored measures will be needed for the most vulnerable workers, including the self-employed, part-time workers and those in temporary employment, who may not qualify for unemployment or health insurance and who are harder to reach.  
zh-cn	很多自雇就业、非全日制工人和临时工没有失业或医疗保险，现有制度无法有效地覆盖他们，因此有必要制定针对性措施来帮助这些最弱势的劳动者。 

en-us	As governments try to flatten the upward curve of infection, we need special measures to protect the millions of health and care workers (most of them women) who risk their own health for us every day.  
zh-cn	在各国政府努力延缓感染人数上升曲线时，我们需要采取有效措施来保护每天冒着生命危险挽救生命的医务工作者（其中大部分是女性）。 

en-us	Truckers and seafarers, who deliver medical equipment and other essentials, must be adequately protected.  
zh-cn	必须充分保护运送医疗设施和其他必需品的司机和海员的健康和安全。 

en-us	Teleworking offers new opportunities for workers to keep working, and employers to continue their businesses through the crisis. 
zh-cn	通过远程办公手段，劳动者得以继续工作，企业得以持续运营渡过危机。 

en-us	However, workers must be able to negotiate these arrangements so that they retain balance with other responsibilities,  
zh-cn	但是，我们必须确保劳动者能够与雇主协商如何安排工作， 

en-us	such as caring for children, the sick or the elderly, and of course themselves.  
zh-cn	以平衡工作和照顾孩子、病人和老人等家庭责任。 

en-us	Many countries have already introduced unprecedented stimulus packages to protect their societies and economies and keep cash flowing to workers and businesses.  
zh-cn	许多国家已经采取了大规模的刺激措施，藉此保护经济和社会，维持劳动者和企业的现金流。 

en-us	To maximize the effectiveness of those measures it is essential for governments to work with employers’ organizations and trade unions to come up with practical solutions, which keep people safe and to protect jobs.  
zh-cn	为了最大程度地发挥这些措施的效力，政府必须与雇主组织和工会合作，提出切实可行的解决方案，保障人民的安全，保护就业。

en-us	These measures include income support, wage subsidies and temporary layoff grants for those in more formal jobs, tax credits for the self-employed, and financial support for businesses.  
zh-cn	这些措施包括支持收入、工资补贴和为正规经济部门中受裁员影响的工人提供临时补贴，对自雇就业者提供税收减免和对企业提供财政支持。 

en-us	But as well as strong domestic measures, decisive multilateral action must be a key stone of a global response to a global enemy.  
zh-cn	除了采取强有力的国内措施，果断的多边行动是国际社会应对共同敌人的基石。 

en-us	The G20’s virtual Extraordinary Summit on the COVID-19 response on 26 March was a welcome first step to get this coordinated response going.  
zh-cn	3月26日，为应对2019冠状病毒病疫情召开的G20远程峰会将为采取协调一致应对措施提供机会。 

en-us	In these most difficult of times, I recall a principle set out in the ILO’s Constitution:  
zh-cn	值此艰难时刻，我想起国际劳工组织章程的一项基本原则：

en-us	Poverty anywhere remains a threat to prosperity everywhere.  
zh-cn	“任何地方的贫穷都会威胁到其它地方的繁荣。” 

en-us	It reminds us that, in years to come, the effectiveness of our response to this existential threat may be judged not just by the scale and speed of the cash injections,  
zh-cn	这提醒我们，未来衡量我们是否采取了有效措施来应对这场关乎人类生存的威胁时，评价的标准不仅是现金投入的规模和速度， 

en-us	or whether the recovery curve is flat or steep, but by what we did for the most vulnerable among us. 
zh-cn	或复苏曲线是平缓还是陡峭，更包括我们为危机中最弱势的群体做了什么。