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By Nia Harden, WRAL reporter Beginning this week, North Carolina will begin screening everyone who works or lives in private skilled nursing facilities for COVID-19. Nursing homes are hot spots for COVID-19 outbreaks in North Carolina and across the country. The state updates coronavirus data weekly for “congregational living environments,” …

Months after the state-level home stay order included a ban on visitors to long-term care facilities, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services lifted that restriction just a little for some. Beginning June 26, residents of a facility with seven or more beds where there are no current …