Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show one in three workers from the food and accommodation sector has lost their job amid the economic fallout of the crisis.
Food and accommodation workers aged 20 to 29 and those over 70 were the hardest hit, with more than 40 per cent of those age groups now out of work.
The figures also show nearly a third of the jobs in the arts and recreation were lost between mid-March and April.
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