UK leaves coronavirus lifeline for workers in place for four more months

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain extended its job retention scheme -- the centrepiece of its attempts to mitigate the coronavirus hit to the economy -- by four months on Tuesday but told employers they would have to help meet its huge cost from August.Finance minister Rishi Sunak said 7.5 million temporarily laid off employees -- almost one in every four British workers -- were now on the scheme.He said they could rest assured that they would continue to get 80% of their wages -- up to 2,500 pounds ..