While some parts of the state have seen an increase in COVID-19 cases, locally the numbers of cases and death have been few as of Sunday. The Ohio Department of Health reported a total of 44,808 cases statewide since the pandemic began, leading to 2,700 deaths and 7,242 hospitalizations. Of ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — World leaders must not politicize the coronavirus pandemic but unite to fight it, the head of the World Health Organization warned today, reminding all that the pandemic is still accelerating and producing record daily increases in infections. The ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The coronavirus is spreading in Pakistan at one of the fastest rates in the world, and overwhelmed hospitals are turning away patients. But the government is pushing ahead with opening up the country, trying to salvage a near-collapsed economy where millions have already slid ...
WARREN — As COVID-19 still lingers in the Mahoning Valley and across the globe, another epidemic continuing to hit hard is the opioid crisis and the overdose deaths that accompany it. While many people were stuck at home during Ohio’s quarantine, there seems to have been an uptick in ...
After two days of high numbers of new reported COVID-19 cases in the state, Saturday saw 531 new probable or confirmed cases. Friday’s report showed 609 new cases and Thursday showed a spike of 700 new cases — a jump from previous weeks where new daily cases had been fewer than 500 since ...
AUSTINTOWN — Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course reopened Friday under state-mandated health and safety protocols. The state Route 46 facility will be open 8 to 3 a.m. and closed 3 to 8 a.m. for deep cleaning daily, and a limit of no more than 50 of the facility’s maximum ...
WARREN — Alex Bodie of Warren only knew the line “Of all the gin joints ...” as the title of a Fall Out Boy song. “I saw a clip and realized that must be where the song title comes from,” she said as she waited with David Wheeler for “Casablanca” to start at the Robins Theatre. ...
Area churches have held worship services online or in parking lots as people practice social-distancing safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. In late May and early June, churches began reopening their doors for congregation members. More churches are planning to return to in-person worship ...
WARREN — River Rock at the Amp will return to the Warren Community Amphitheatre on July 3 with extensive rules to enforce social distancing. Sunrise Entertainment President Ken Haidaris said he submitted a proposal to the city health department that has been approved. “The city of ...
LEAVITTSBURG — While Trumbull County has seen a much smaller surge of nursing home coronavirus cases and deaths than Mahoning County and avoided the prison cases and deaths seen in Columbiana County’s federal prison at Elkton, virus cases are rising at the Trumbull Correctional ...
BERLIN (AP) — Britain lowered its coronavirus threat level one notch today, becoming the latest country to claim it's getting a national outbreak under control. The U.K.'s Joint Biosecurity Center recommended moving the COVID-19 risk in the country from the second-highest level, 4 - meaning ...
Ohio is seeing a reduction in COVID-19 deaths, but Mahoning County remains a concern. No virus fatalities were reported Wednesday in Mahoning County — the first time in a week. But 44 COVID-19 deaths in Mahoning County were reported between June 1 and Wednesday. In comparison, Trumbull ...
Here are summaries of the latest stories worldwide from The Associated Press on the coronavirus pandemic, including: — UK expected to ditch its virus app after delays; — Europe sees rash of new outbreaks, including at a German meatpacking plant; — China says infections are waning, ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Europe grappled today with local spikes in coronavirus infections as the continent's lockdown restrictions eased, after hundreds of cases were found at one meatpacking plant in Germany and Greece had to impose a total seven-day lockdown on one village. The ...
The state’s unemployment compensation fund is broke, forcing Ohio to borrow $3.1 billion from the federal government. Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday the system was running out of money before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But the pandemic quickened its insolvency, he said. “That ($3.1 ...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday that while the virus is still present, the state is seeing the number of deaths and cases become “flat for well over a month.” On Tuesday, there were 24 reported COVID-19 deaths compared to the daily average of 28 for the previous 21 days. Also, there ...
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — English soccer's longest suspension since World War II comes to an end today, bringing the country's favorite sport back to a nation that has struggled to protect its citizens during the coronavirus pandemic. The Premier League, the richest soccer league in the ...
BEIJING (AP) — China raised its emergency warning to its second highest level and canceled more than 60 percent of the flights to Beijing today amid a new coronavirus outbreak in the capital — a sharp pullback for the nation that declared victory over the virus in March and a warning for ...
HUBBARD — Patent approval for a sub-one hour test to detect COVID-19 that was developed by a local biotech firm is on the fast track in a new program with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The application by NanoLogix for its enzyme-based test to detect quickly the virus was accepted ...
WARREN — The Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber and tourism bureaus in Trumbull and Mahoning counties are encouraging local businesses to sign a pledge to emerge safely from the virus outbreak. The “Pledge to EMERGE Safely” assures customers and guests that each of the chamber’s ...