BFF-16 Virus-hit Spain’s jobless rate jumps to 14.4 percent

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Virus-hit Spain’s jobless rate jumps to 14.4 percent

MADRID, April 28, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Spain’s unemployment rate jumped in the

first quarter of 2020 to 14.4 percent, figures from national statistics institute

INE showed, as a nationwide coronavirus lockdown hit the eurozone’s fourth

largest economy.

The jobless rate was up from 13.8 percent in the previous quarter, the highest

level in the eurozone after Greece. Spain, one of the hardest-hit nations by the

pandemic, imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 14 which has largely paralysed

its economy.

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