Job-seekers rush back to HCMC after long Covid break

People look for jobs at the HCMC Center Youth Employment Services after the Lunar New Year holiday. Photo by VnExpress/An Phuong

Migrant workers who ignored exhortations to stay and returned to their hometowns last year when Covid-19 restrictions were lifted in HCMC are rushing back to find new jobs.

On Feb. 6, the final day of the Lunar New Year festival, Duong Van Thanh, 37, took his daughter from their hometown in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap to Ho Chi Minh City.

Thanh had been unemployed for more than six months.

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