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Surging Covid cases, slow pace of vaccination to hamper southeast Asia's job crisis: Report

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International Labour Organization (ILO) in a policy brief. As per ILO, around 9.3 million lesser people than general will be employed in Southeast Asia this year, as compared to the pre-pandemic trend.

The employment gap compares with the 10.6 million shortfalls estimated in 2020, with the difference expected to narrow to 4.1 million next year, the group said. “The crisis has laid bare the vulnerabilities of the economies and labor markets in the region," Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, the ILO’s assistant director-general, said in a statement.

Policies are needed to boost the resilience of enterprises, workers and households, she said. With infections rising as the more contagious delta variant of Covid spreads, many parts of Southeast Asia

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