Covid: in Spain in February record number of unemployed since 2016

(ANSA) - MADRID, 02 MAR - Four million unemployed: this is the figure recorded in February in Spain, the highest since 2016.

   Accomplice - according to the Spanish media reporting this figure of the Ministries of Labor and Social Security - the third wave of the pandemic of Covid, which hit the country very hard in January and forced the authorities of almost all the regions to take drastic measures to reduce infections, after a relative relaxation during the Christmas period.

    Compared to January, about 44,000 more unemployed were accounted for, which broke the four million barrier. A level that had not been recorded since April five years ago, when the country was slowly trying to recover from the economic crisis of 2008. The people currently in redundancy are almost 900,000. (HANDLE).