WEIRTON — City officials are hoping to be approved for a portion of West Virginia’s allotment of federal coronavirus relief funding. “We submitted our first application on Friday,” Finance Director Diana Smoljanovich said during a council workshop Tuesday. The federal C.A.R.E.S. ...
NEW YORK — There is little evidence that the protests that erupted after George Floyd’s death caused a significant increase in U.S. coronavirus infections, according to public health experts. If the protests had driven an explosion in cases, experts say, the jumps would have started to ...
Due to the precautions being taken surrounding the coronavirus, the following changes have been made regarding events and meetings in the local area: ¯ The Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County will reopen Monday in a limited capacity. Curb-side pick-up service also is available. ¯ Cadiz’s annual fireworks display has been canceled. ¯ The 74th-annual Weirton Steel Corp. 25-Year Club picnic set for July 18 has been canceled. ¯ A Caring Place Child Advocacy Center has canceled what would have been its rescheduled casino night fundraiser on July 18 at the ...
HOUSTON — Health departments around the U.S. that are using contact tracers to contain coronavirus outbreaks are scrambling to bolster their ranks amid a surge of cases and resistance to cooperation from those infected or exposed. With too few trained contact tracers to handle soaring ...
CHARLESTON — Much like other states across the nation, West Virginia is seeing a spike in coronavirus cases partly driven by young adults in their 20s. According to data from the Department of Health and Human Resources’ coronavirus dashboard, 17 percent of the state’s positive COVID-19 cases are residents between the ages of 20 and 29. “This level of outbreak is affecting now those a couple of decades under the outbreak levels we were witnessing before,” Gov. Jim Justice said Monday after being briefed by Vice President Mike Pence during a conference call with other ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice remained upset Monday about the number of active cases of COVID-19 on the website that tracks the data in West Virginia and again defended the forced resignation of the state’s health officer. Justice, speaking Monday during a coronavirus briefing at the Capitol, said that the Department of Health and Human Resources’ coronavirus dashboard was still overreporting the number of active COVID-19 cases in the state. “We have now dug deeper and deeper into the situation…we had more active cases reported than we had active cases,” Justice said. “It ...
