BERLIN, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Germany's labor market fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic as the number of people in employment exceeded pre-crisis levels again in the first quarter (Q1) of 2022, the country's statistical office reported on Wednesday.
In Q1, the total number of employees in the country grew to 45.1 million, slightly above the figure registered in the fourth quarter of 2019, i.e. just before pandemic-related restrictions hit the German economy for the first time, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said.
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