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Hong Kong unemployment is expected to continue falling but the city is not yet out of the woods and wider Covid-19 vaccination uptake is needed to improve the economic outlook, the finance chief has said.
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Sunday that jobless figures for April to June, to be announced on Tuesday, were set to return to the levels of more than a year ago, after dropping from a 7.2 per cent high at the beginning of 2021 to 6 per cent in May.
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2021-05-20 09:35:25 GMT2021-05-20 17:35:25(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HONG KONG, May 20 (Xinhua) Hong Kong s jobless rate continued to fall over the past three months as business activities were gradually recovering thanks to the abating COVID-19 epidemic.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the financial hub went down to 6.4 percent during the February-April period from 6.8 percent in the first quarter of the year, the Census and Statistics Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said on Thursday in a report.
The underemployment rate dropped from 3.8 percent to 3.3 percent at the same time.
Analyzed by sector, the unemployment rate of most economic sectors fell as compared with the preceding three months.
A top Hong Kong public health adviser has warned a potential fifth wave of Covid-19 infections could emerge in the next two weeks, hours after authorities identified the city’s first untraceable case with a mutant strain and evacuated hundreds from a residential block overnight.
Chinese University respiratory medicine expert Professor David Hui Shu-cheong also said the government might need to look into tightening social-distancing measures once more if local coronavirus infections rose rapidly, particularly if unlinked cases made up more than 20 per cent of the total.
Infectious disease expert Dr Joseph Tsang Kay-yan, meanwhile, suggested that authorities consider mass virus testing for the city’s foreign domestic workers, given that the 39-year-old woman carrying the mutant strain had met with other helpers during her incubation period.