But there are still 19,000 more people unemployed in Wales than at the start of the pandemic.
Latest figures show there were still 19,000 more people unemployed than a year earlier as pandemic beganThere are now 66,000 people unemployed in Wales, which is 4.3% of those over 16 years old. This is lower thanBetween February and April there were 28,000 more people working in Wales compared with the previous three months.
But there were still 19,000 more people unemployed than a year earlier - at the start of the pandemic.image captionIn the three months to April, there were 32,000 fewer people in this category in Wales than three months earlier.Between March and May, as the economy started to open up, there were 24% more job vacancies than three months earlier.There has been an increase in the number of people employed in the public sector, especially in the health service and UK central government.
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