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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – As North Carolina’s unemployment rate continues its steady decline, employers across the state are simultaneously ramping up their hiring efforts. There are currently tens of thousands of jobs on offer across the Triangle region alone.
According to the latest data from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, the state’s unemployment rate hovered around 5% in April, reflecting only a slight drop from the previous month. Still, that figure is 8.5 percentage opoints lower than a year ago, when unemployment hit 13.5%.
But the pace of hiring varies widely from sector to sector. April’s most significant job gains came from manufacturing, construction, leisure and hospitality services, information technology, and education and health services, per NC Department of Commerce data. At the same time, professional and business services, trade, transportation and utilities, government, financial activities, mining and logging, and other services saw decreases
Lessons learnt from Covid-19
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A police officer attached to Mutukula Border Police Station being interviewed at Masaka hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 on May 5, 2020. PHOTO/ISSA ALIGA
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Dr Charles Olaro, the director of Curative Services at the Ministry of Health, says one way of going around this problem could be to invest in technology to make the equipment here rather than reliance on imports.
Dr Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, the WHO country representative, said the country needs to strengthen hospital capacities to handle significant influxes of patients associated with a large scale pandemic.
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When the country ushered in 2020, no one expected the turmoil that came with it as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Kimberly Jung, co-founder of Austin-based Solar Service, knows that Covid slammed her 12-person business, which cleans solar panels. She just isn t sure how badly. As Jung says, Covid meant that people kind of stopped everything. Homeowners didn t want crews coming over to clean, even though the crews would be outdoors. Commercial customers, feeling uncertain about the future, didn t want to commit to cleaning contracts. We re growing quickly, so who knows what sales we could have had? says Jung. Even though the company has grown through the pandemic, she guesses that Covid cut sales by 50 percent.
Galaxy Diagnostics Launches the Most Sensitive Test Available for Direct Detection of Cat Scratch Disease
Science Leader in Testing for Flea and Tick-Borne Illness Introduces Bartonella Digital ePCR™
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DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Galaxy Diagnostics, Inc., the science leader in sample enrichment powered testing solutions for elusive flea and tick-borne pathogens, today announced the launch of
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