Spain's unemployment rises amid new COVID outbreaks, tourist restrictions

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The number of registered unemployed people in Spain rose in August as new outbreaks of the coronavirus and travel restrictions imposed by other countries began taking a toll after months of timid recovery from an initial lockdown.

FILE PHOTO: A waiter wearing a face mask sits on a terrace of a bar, where he works, as he waits for tourists in Las Ramblas, after Catalonia's regional authorities announced restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease in Barcelona, Spain August 7, 2020. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File Photo

The heavily tourism-dependent Balearic Islands were the hardest hit region, registering a 3% rise in unemployment. Overall, Spain had about 740,000 more jobless people in August than in the same month a year ago. The lockdown prompted by the coronavirus erased some 900,000 jobs in March alone.

 

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