news Hong Kong unemployment set to continue falling but ‘hard times’ are ahead, finance secretary says Zoe Lowzoe.low@scmp.com Jobless figures for April to June are poised to return to levels last seen in the first half of 2020, a senior minister says. Photo: Bloomberg 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.