'I'm delighted we didn't lose 100 percent of our jobs despite the extremely long time we were locked down,' President Rodrigo Duterte's spokesman said.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's spokesman said Monday he was"delighted" to see a recent survey that shows nearly half of the country's residents are unemployed.
Roque's comments were in response to a survey, conducted by polling institution Social Weather Stations, that found unemployment across the Philippines is at 45.5 percent, a record high. According to CNN Philippines, this finding was an increase from data released by the country's labor department last December, which reported 7.3 million unemployed Filipinos. This was equal to a 17.7 percent unemployment rate, previously the highest in the country.
Just a few days before the newly reported cases, Duterte ordered a stricter modified enhanced community quarantine in the Metro Manila region and the provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal, according to CNN, as they have seen an increase in cases.
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