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Articles About COVID-19 :: Page 13

  • How Ohioans are changing their behavior after the stay-at-home order

    By Megan BachmanApril 4, 2020

    Ohioans are traveling and buying less, while visiting parks more, new data released by the state suggests. Dr. Amy Acton presented some of the figures at the governor’s briefing on Saturday, April 4.

  • New message for visitors: stay home

    By Megan Bachman

    Earlier this week, the Village of Yellow Springs erected three electronic signs with public messaging at the gateways to town in an attempt to inform, and also deter visitors during the statewide “stay-at-home” order.

    After a throng of tourists visited the prior week, some flaunting social distancing rules, the Village, Glen Helen and the Chamber are discouraging visitors.

  • State and local update: Nine confirmed cases in Greene County, 3,312 statewide

    By Megan BachmanApril 3, 2020

    Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ohio rose to 3,312, the Ohio Department of Health reported on Friday, April 3. Read more state and local updates after the jump.

  • Ohio hospitals prepare for surge

    By Audrey HackettApril 2, 2020

    Hospitals have been working for months to prepare for the spread of COVID-19 to Ohio, but efforts have intensified over the past couple of weeks.

  • First COVID-19 death in Greene County reported

    By Megan BachmanMarch 30, 2020

    Photo: CDC/Dr. Fred Murphy, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health; public domain.

    An 87-year-old Cedarville woman died from the novel coronavirus on March 26, according to a press release from the county health department.

  • Ohio cases rise to 1,653; mask sterilization process approval near: Highlights from the governor’s March 29 briefing

    By Audrey HackettMarch 28, 2020

    President Donald Trump has assured Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine that by the end of the day FDA would approve a new process, developed in Ohio, to sterilize used surgical masks, DeWine reported at a short press briefing on Sunday, March 29. Read reports from press briefings on March 27, 28 and 29.

  • YS Schools— Learning continues despite closure

    By Carol SimmonsMarch 27, 2020

    This week would have been spring break for Yellow Springs schools, if they — and all other kindergarten through 12th grade institutions in the state — had not closed a week earlier, as ordered by Gov. Mike DeWine in response to the worldwide novel coronavirus outbreak.

  • Businesses adapt, ‘tough it out’

    By Diane Chiddister

    As part of Gov. Mike DeWine’s March 22 order that Ohioans must stay home, all businesses deemed nonessential were instructed to shut their doors.

  • Feeding the village amid crisis

    By Megan BachmanMarch 26, 2020

    In the wake of business closures across the state to stem the spread of COVID-19, many in the village and township have lost their incomes. And, as in many other communities, hunger here is rising.

  • Schools adjust to closure

    By Carol SimmonsMarch 25, 2020

    DeWine announced a three-week shutdown Thursday afternoon, March 12, with the closure to begin at the end of the school day Monday, March 16, and students set to return to class Monday, April 6.