The unemployment rate last month edged down 0.03 percentage points to 3.64 percent, the lowest in 21 months, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) reported on Tuesday. While fallout from an increase in the number of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases has yet to be reflected in the employment data, the job market will show the impact if the virus situation continues to worsen. Taiwan is facing its biggest COVID-19 challenge since the start of the pandemic early last year. With the Central Epidemic Command Center raising the COVID-19 alert to level 3 for the whole nation and extending the