German unemployment surges in April as coronavirus outbreak takes toll

BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of people out of work in Germany increased by 373,000 to 2.639 million in April as the coronavirus outbreak began to bite, data from the Labour Office showed on Thursday, and the unemployment rate increased to 5.8%.The jobless rate had stood at 5.0% in seasonally adjusted terms in March.The Labour Office said 751,000 requests for short-time work for a total of 10.1 million people were made in March and until April 26. It said that did not mean all of those people..