Coinspeaker Unemployment Claims Higher Than Estimates: 2.981M in a Week, Coronavirus Tally Is 36.5MAnother 3 million people filed initial unemployment claims last week. That brings the total number of first-time claimants to 36.5 million since mid-March.Unemployment Claims Higher Than Estimates: 2.981M in a Week, Coronavirus Tally Is 36.5M