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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia has experienced its biggest two-day jump in confirmed coronavirus cases, according to health statistics released Sunday. The Department of Health and Human Resources website showed an increase of 76 positive cases on Sunday and 118 on Saturday. West Virginia has seen a 16% jump in...

A warehouse employee of Pittsburgh Public Schools tested positive for covid-19 on Sunday, prompting the district to keep its service center closed through Tuesday, officials said. The district knows of another employee at Pittsburgh Fulton K-5 elementary school who may have been exposed to covid-19, spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said. The...

MEXICO CITY — Residents of the town of Sonoyta, across from Lukeville, Ariz., briefly blocked the main road leading south from the U.S. border over the weekend over fears of coronavirus outbreaks. Arizona has seen a major upsurge in infections and there were worries about intensified contagion during the July...

The Penn Hills Shop ’n Save has closed until further notice after a fourth employee tested positive for covid-19 in less than a week. None of the employees who contracted the coronavirus disease have been inside the store since June 29, according to owner Greg Hartley. He said the decision...

The United States should be building up reserves of therapeutic antibodies now ahead of any potential approval or emergency use authorization to treat the coronavirus, said the former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We need a more coordinated national strategy around this,” ex-FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said...

Westmoreland County saw 27 new cases of covid-19 Sunday, but no additional deaths, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported. That makes the seventh time in the past week that Westmoreland County saw double-digit increases in new coronavirus cases. The new cases bring the total number of cases in the county...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health Sunday confirmed an additional 479 positive cases of covid-19, bringing the statewide total to 89,854. Officials said they recorded an increase of four new deaths due to the virus, bringing the total number of deaths statewide to 6,753. Meanwhile, 734,846 Pennsylvanians across the state now...

Allegheny County Health Department officials reported 127 new covid-19 cases on Sunday, with four more hospitalizations. The new numbers marked the the third straight day of declines in new cases after a record-setting 233 cases Thursday, followed by 177 cases Friday and 150 Saturday. The county reported no new deaths,...

As Western Pennsylvania struggles with the coronavirus, officials say the pandemic is expected to have a dramatic, continued impact on tax revenue collected from hotel stays, which in turn is used to promote the region’s more than $7 billion travel industry. Virus fears resulted in fewer people coming to the...

SEATTLE — Six months into a pandemic that has killed more than half a million people, more than 200 scientists from around the world are challenging the official view of how the coronavirus spreads. The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintain you have...

Westmoreland County saw 30 new cases of covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported Saturday, but no additional deaths. That makes the sixth time in the past week that Westmoreland County saw double-digit increases in new coronavirus cases. The new cases make a total of...

There were three new covid-19 deaths and 634 new cases reported in the state Saturday by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The statewide total is now 89,375 cases and 6,749 deaths, with 634 patients considered probable cases. Out of the new cases, 150 — or nearly 24% — are from...

Allegheny County Health officials reported 150 new covid-19 cases Saturday, with two more hospitalizations. It’s the second straight day the county has seen a decline after a record-setting 233 cases Thursday, followed by 177 cases Friday. The county reported no new deaths, leaving the total at 187. On Friday, the...

Several employees from the Target store in Harmar tested positive for covid-19 within the last week, a spokeswoman said Saturday. Spokeswoman Danielle Schumann did not disclose the exact number of employees who tested positive. “We’ve communicated directly with these team members, who went into quarantine and are following all health...

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. — After months of diligently isolating, truck driver Tommy Macias, 51, made one error that cost him his life. He went to a barbecue party with some friends. He didn’t know that someone who had tested positive for COVID-19, but showed no symptoms, also was there. “It...

In April, business owner Rose Morris began taking the medical-grade fabric her company, Abram’s Nation, typically uses to create safety beds and began using it to create machine-washable fabric masks. The Hampton Township company ended up donating more than 1,000 of the masks to local nonprofits, groups and businesses. But...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Candidates in the November election who already hold office are grappling with a thorny question: where does the coronavirus stop and the campaign begin? In Montana, Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock’s actions helped keep the state’s infection rate from the COVID-19 pandemic among the lowest in the nation....

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The number of prison inmates testing positive for the coronavirus soared well past the 50,000 mark last month, as recent outbreaks threatened to undo control measures put in place earlier in the pandemic. At the end of June, the total number of coronavirus cases among prisoners had...

For the fifth time in six days, Westmoreland County’s new coronavirus case count is in the double digits. The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 33 new covid-19 cases and no additional deaths in Westmoreland County on Friday. This brings the case total to 744 and death total to 38 in...

There were 34 new covid-19 deaths and 667 new cases reported in the state by the Pennsylvania Department of Health on Friday. Out of the 667 cases, 177 are from Allegheny County. The statewide total is now 88,741 cases and 6,746 deaths, with 634 patients considered probable cases. Pa. coronavirus...

Allegheny County Health officials reported 177 new covid-19 cases Friday, representing a slight dip after a record-setting 233 on Thursday, but still far above what the county was seeing just two weeks ago. Five more people were hospitalized since Thursday’s 11 a.m. data was released. The running county case-count stands...