Unemployment soars in Portugal's tourism-dependent Algarve region
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LISBON (Reuters) - Unemployment in Portugal's tourism-dependent Algarve region more than doubled in April compared with the same month last year, data showed on Wednesday, as a lockdown kept foreign visitors away and wiped out seasonal jobs.In the southern Algarve, usually packed with tourists but now nearly deserted, just over 4,700 people registered as unemployed in April, bringing the total out of work to 26,379 - nearly 15,000 or 123% more than this time last year, data from the Institute..