The third wave of the pandemic slows the economic recovery with the worst unemployment data in five years

Jug of cold water for employment in February. The Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño, already advanced on Monday that the data were not going to be good and this Tuesday her omens were confirmed. Spain has returned to unemployment levels above the barrier of four million unemployed after having suffered its worst month of February since 2013, adding more than 44,000 people registered on the unemployment lists. The labor market has been dragged down by the collapse of activity in the service sector, greatly affected by the restrictions applied to quell the third wave of the coronavirus.