INDIANAPOLIS  — Over 500,000 people in Indiana have applied for unemployment benefits over the past five weeks as job losses mounted because of the coronavirus pandemic.  There were 75,000 new jobless claims just last week.

While that’s down from the more than 110,000 claims filed in each of the three previous weeks, the state was typically receiving fewer than 3,000 new claims a week before widespread business shutdowns started in mid-March.

Indiana has totaled about 515,000 jobless claims during the five-week period.

The state’s COVID-19 death toll topped 700 people on Thursday, with 45 new fatalities.

 

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