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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – UPDATE: DHSS today announced 68 new people with COVID-19 in Alaska and one death. 62 are residents in 11 communities: Anchorage (40), Fairbanks (6), Valdez-Cordova Census Area (6), Juneau (2), Sterling (2), and one each Kenai Peninsula Borough North, Metlakatla, Prince of Wales- Hyder Borough, Sitka, …

The North Carolina High School Athletic Association has revised its high school sports calendar for the 2020-21 school year, becoming one of the first governing bodies in the South to finalize football for a shortened spring season. High school football will play a spring season with the first practice scheduled …

article A file image from 19 June 2020 shows a person vaccinated at the Institute of Tropical Medicine at the University Hospital of Tübingen. (Photo by Christoph Schmidt / picture alliance via Getty Images) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida, which has endured a surge of coronavirus infections this summer, will participate …

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, face masks have become a necessity, like keys or your wallet – you can’t leave the house without them. For the reusable dust masks popular with so many people, that means a lot of washing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) …

Eight new cases of the novel coronavirus were confirmed Wednesday at the Anchorage Pioneer Home. There are now 12 people with COVID-19 at the facility, including 10 seniors and two staff members, according to the state health department. A Fairbanks woman in her 70s with underlying circumstances was the 27th …