Only two entities in the country concentrated 54.6 percent of the total loss of formal jobs during 2020 caused by measures to contain the contagion of the coronavirus pandemic.

According to IMSS data, Mexico City accounted for 39.6 percent of the job losses, that is, 256,145,000 jobs. This represented its first setback since 2009, when on that occasion 91,868 jobs were destroyed.

In the case of Quintana Roo, it represented 15.03 percent of the total, adding a loss of 97 thousand 381 jobs, its first fall after 11 years of increases.

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