mo4ch:>Coronavirus: ‘If you can’t work, what do you do?’

Coronavirus: ‘If you can’t work, what do you do?’Coronavirus: ‘If you can’t work, what do you do?’20 March 2020 Related TopicsCoronavirus pandemic Image copyrightCathy WassellImage captionDigital marketing agency owner Cathy Wassell has been self-employed for 17 yearsSelf-employed people say they are deeply worried about how they will survive with no income due to the impact of the coronavirus, after discovering the financial measures announced by the UK government on Tuesday do not apply to them."It made me feel as if I wasn't of any importance," says Cathy Wassell, a freelance digital marketing agency owner based in Stratford-Upon-Avon who has run three businesses from home over the last 17 years."I watched the chancellor's speech but it was glaringly obvious that there was no help for self-employed people in those packages at all."According to the Office for National Statistics, there are five million self-employed people in the UK, who make up 15% of the …