Last week, another 2,727 Wood County residents filed for unemployment – many losing their jobs to coronavirus closures.
The week before, 4,029 county residents filed for unemployment, and the week prior to that 2,222 applied for unemployment, starting the waves of people out of work after businesses were ordered to shut down.
Those numbers are in stark contrast to the low numbers Wood County had been seeing. For example, just 68 people filed for jobless benefits in the first week of February.
Statewide, 676,599 people filed for unemployment last week.
