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Written by: Yuan Shu Huang Yongyu
2021-02-18 16:33
The last update date: 2021-02-18 16:33
The new crown pneumonia epidemic has slowed down, and Hong Kong has gradually relaxed its anti-epidemic measures. All walks of life are waiting for prosperity.
The government announced the latest unemployment rate today (18th). The unemployment rate from November 2020 to January 2021 rose to 7%, a 0.4% increase from the previous period (October to December), a record high in nearly 17 years. The latest 253,300 people are unemployed.
The government announced last month that the unemployment rate from October to December was 6.6%, and the number of unemployed exceeded 240,000.
(Profile picture / Photo by Liang Pengwei)
▼The epidemic slows down on the seventh day of the year (February 18), conditions for social distancing measures are relaxed ▼
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The highest unemployment rate during SARS was 8.7%
However, the latest unemployment rate has not yet reached the highest level of SARS.
Looking through the data, Hong Kong’s unemployment rate was hit hard by the SARS epidemic in 2003. The unemployment rate in Hong Kong was 7.9%. From May to July, the unemployment rate in Hong Kong hit a record high of 8.7%, and the number of unemployed people exceeded 300,000.
The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Law Chi Kwong.
(Data Picture/Photo by Liang Pengwei)
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