JOBS have fallen in north-west Victoria at the second most severe rate of any region in Australia.

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) payroll data revealed the total number of jobs in the north-west had fallen 10.2 per cent between March 14, the week the country ­recorded its 100th coronavirus case, and July 11.

Over the same period, only Gippsland — which fell by a fractionally greater 10...