Millions more are expected to be added to the jobless count. As the economic toll from the coronavirus pandemic mounts, the federal government is expected to report on Thursday that millions more people are without a job. The Labor Department will report at 8:30 a.m. Eastern the number of new unemployment claims that were filed in the week that ended April 18. Wall Street analysts expect 4.5 million workers to be added in the tally, on top of the 20 million who filed in the previous four weeks . The report is likely to intensify the debate over when to lift restrictions that have helped fight the virus’s spread but placed the economy in a stranglehold. “At all levels, it’s eye-watering numbers,” said Torsten Slok, chief international economist at Deutsche Bank Securities. As large as the figures have been, they do not capture the full extent of layoffs — […]