Japan has just got a fresh indicator of how badly measures to slow the spread of coronavirus have hit its economy.

New figures show the country’s exports plummeted by 26.2% in June, the fourth month in a row to see a double-digit decline.

Japanese goods heading to America were hit particularly hard, plunging by 46.6%.
That’s as US-bound shipments of cars, car parts and plane engines fell by more than 50%.

The world’s third largest economy is now facing its worst recession since the end of World War Two.