LONDON: Prince Charles has warned that up to 1 million young people in Britain may need urgent help to protect their futures from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, as politicians debated whether to keep British university students from returning home for Christmas.
The Prince of Wales said the social and economic crisis created by the coronavirus is reminiscent of the upheavals of the 1970s, when youth unemployment was one of the pressing issues facing British society.
There has never been a time as uniquely challenging as the present, when the pandemic has left perhaps another million young people needing urgent help to protect their futures, he wrote in the Sunday Telegraph. The task ahead is unquestionably vast, but it is not insurmountable.
The comments came as the spread of COVID-19 accelerates across the…