The unemployment rate rose to 7.2% in the third quarter of 2020 as a result of the COVID-related crisis, the Statistics Office announced. The number of jobless people in the third quarter was 21.9 % higher than in the third quarter of 2019. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate was up by 1.3 percentage points year-on-year. Rising for three consecutive quarters, it reached the level seen last in late 2017 and early 2018. Unemployment rose, after seasonal adjustments, by 5.9% quarter-on-quarter. Meanwhile, half of the unemployed people lost their job in the past six months. Last year, this group represented less than one third of all unemployed.
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