Senators on Tuesday called on the government to speed up the vaccination of workers and other economic frontliners to allow them to return to work amid a report the Philippines has the worst jobless rate in Asia.

The National Economic and Development Authority released a report showing the Philippines with the worst unemployment record among seven Asian economies.

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