The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. climbed to an all-time high of more than 50,000 per day on Thursday, with the infection curve rising in 40 out of 50 states in a reversal that has largely spared only the Northeast.
As COVID-19 cases show no sign of slowing and more people are ending up in the hospital with the virus, South Carolina officials said the recovery of jobs they hoped for has not materialized.
Street food doesnβt usually look like this.
The coronavirus pandemic has prompted layoffs at the Belk department store chain, including at its North Carolina-based corporate headquarters.
South Carolina reported more people in the hospital and more deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday than any day since the pandemic began in March, overwhelming the ability to track cases and try to slow the spreading outbreak, the stateβs top infectious disease specialist said.
U.S. employers added a substantial 4.8 million jobs in June, and the unemployment rate fell to 11.1%, as the job market improved for a second straight month yet still remained far short of regaining the colossal losses it suffered this spring.
A decision on how the state will send students back to school delayed on Wednesday. As Governor Roy Cooper takes more time to consider which direction to take, local school districts revealed their plans and preparations for the school year ahead.Β
Governor Roy Cooper today shared that North Carolina will continue working with schools, teachers, parents, and health experts to ensure that plans for school this coming year will protect everybody, especially those at high-risk.
Public health experts on Wednesday criticized the U.S. for securing a large supply of the only drug licensed so far to treat COVID-19.
There is little evidence that the protests that erupted after George Floydβs death caused a significant increase in U.S. coronavirus infections, according to public health experts.
Outside a back door to a hospital where the coronavirus hit like a hurricane, a half-dozen staffers gathered recently to look back, and look inward.
The North Carolina Republican Party canceled its annual in-person convention on Tuesday, citing the state health director, who warned such a high-risk gathering for spreading COVID-19 could puts lots of delegates in the hospital.
Creativity and collaboration, colliding for the greater good at a local, Black-owned business in Charlotte. Student interns from a local non-profit called Give N Go are getting real-life business skills and experience at MacFly Fresh Printing Co. in north Charlotte.
βWe are using every tool we have to respond to COVID-19,β said NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen, M.D. βBuilding on North Carolinaβs early and aggressive actions to protect residents who live in long-term care settings, DHHS will pay for proactive testing of staff and residents in all nursing homes to slow the spread of COVID-19.β Β
As South Carolina approaches a holiday weekend often an anchor for its typically booming tourism industry, and the stateβs numbers of positive coronavirus tests continue to rise, public health officials are encouraging people to just stay home.
The chief justice of North Carolinaβs Supreme Court is extending various emergency directives in the stateβs courts in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
The European Continent on Tuesday reopened to visitors from 14 countries, but not the U.S., where some of the states that pushed hardest and earliest to reopen their economies are now in retreat because of an alarming surge in confirmed coronavirus infections.
Carolina Therapeutic Services First and MCI Diagnostics Laboratory, in partnership with Boom Car Wash, presents FREE walk-up or drive-thru COVID-19 testing for Charlotte area residents.
South Carolina hospitals now hold more than 1,000 patients with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19, and more than 10 localities have ordered people to wear masks to fight transmission of the coronavirus that causes the disease.
A major move to mandate masks in Jacksonville, Florida; the new home of the Republican National Convention.Β
Governor Roy Cooper is set to face another legal challenge over business shutdowns due to COVID-19. It comes despite a growing number of cases across the state.
Due to the increase in York County COVID-19 cases, York County Government and the York County Sheriffβs Office recommend residents wear a mask or some type of face covering when out in a public setting, around people outside of your household and especially when social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said Monday his impeding lawsuit against Gov. Roy Cooper for unilaterally closing businesses and mandating face masks due to COVID-19 isnβt politically motivated, despite their November election matchup.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has signed into law a K-12 educator pay bill that he says still fails to give what teachers and school staff need.
As South Carolina reported a record-high number of COVID-19 hospitalizations Friday, Gov. Henry McMaster doubled down on his stance that a statewide mask requirement could not be enforced.
