by Gordon White –
The Middle Peninsula, including Middlesex County, has been hard-hit by the shutdowns required by the response to the coronavirus, with a larger percentage — 15.7% — of workers unemployed here than in any other Virginia region, the Middlesex Economic Development Authority reported this week, using data supplied by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. The high rate is in part because a large number of Middle Peninsula residents work in businesses for which it is impossible to work remotely.
The impact in Middlesex County has been severe. In a survey the Middlesex EDA undertook last week, 51 county businesses indicated that they had applied for federal or private assistance, with just over half of those — 27 — reporting they had actually received aid money.
The effect of COVID-19 in Middlesex has been very uneven. A total of 91 Middlesex businesses have responded to the EDA survey, with nearly two-thirds, largely restaurants, non-food retailers and hospitality, virtually shut down…
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