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Lower South Island jobseeker numbers up more than 50 percent

08:10 am on 2 December 2020

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Covid-19 has caused economic pain throughout the country, but nowhere more than the lower South Island where the numbers on the dole have increased more than 50 percent since February.

Unsurprisingly tourist mecca Queenstown Lakes has been hardest hit.

But as Timothy Brown reports, there's still hope there - and among its neighbours.