The Employment Service reports that as of 5:30 am Monday, 572,660 new registrants had registered as of March. 90% of applications were from workers placed on unpaid leave.
During the night an there was an addition of 21,000 from the latest report yesterday at 6 pm.
A total of 62,000 were added over the past 24 hours. The unemployment rate, which was 16.5% yesterday morning, now stands at 17.6%.