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As of 3:30 p.m. April 10, there are 51 patients hospitalized at EAMC with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis. 37 patients previously hospitalized with COVID-19 have been discharged.

Pick-up will take place April 15 and April 16 at each school.

The RiverCenter’s website includes an education page that features numerous arts projects from the RiverCenter’s teaching artists as well as local and national arts resources.

A kind gesture during a difficult time: East Alabama Medical Center’s (EAMC) Nutrition and Food Services dyed Easter eggs and made cookie bags for the patients.

Maple Ridge is a semi-private course seeing more players this time of year despite COVID-19 concerns.

Muscogee County now has three confirmed deaths and Harris County has reported its first coronavirus fatality.

With millions being laid off or furloughed during the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity is continuing to be a problem.

The Gilead Sciences drug has shown promise against other coronaviruses in the past and in lab tests against the one causing the current pandemic, which now has claimed more than 100,000 lives.

Hospitals are working around the clock to continue care of coronavirus patients, but some have made some cuts in staffing in order to keep operations going.

Inmates at a Kansas prison where at least 28 people have been sickened by the coronavirus rampaged through offices, breaking windows and setting small fires for several hours before the facility was secured, prison officials said Friday.