Taiwan's jobless rate remained relatively stable in February despite the growing battle with the novel coronavirus disease during the month.

The government says the island's unemployment rate fell from a month earlier in July as the local job market has now stabilised.

Taiwan's official unemployment rate reached 4% in July, according to the monthly Manpower Survey Results report by the Directorate General of Budget Accounting & Statistics (DGBAS).

The unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percentage point to 3.99% in August.

Taiwan's jobless rate rose slightly last month.

Taiwan's unemployment rate rose by 0.4 percentage points to 4.07% in May, compared with the same month in 2019.

Taiwan's unemployment rate in November declined to 3.66% or 3.71% on a seasonally adjusted basis