(UPDATE) THE number of jobless Filipinos fell in April, with the unemployment rate at its lowest since the pandemic began, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday.

National Statistician Claire Dennis Mapa said in a briefing on Friday that preliminary Labor Force Survey data put the unemployment rate in April at 5.7 percent, the lowest since January 2020, when it was 5.3 percent.

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