Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt Says He Tested Positive For COVID-19
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced Wednesday that he's the first governor in the United States to test positive for the coronavirus and that he is isolating at home.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced Wednesday that he's the first governor in the United States to test positive for the coronavirus and that he is isolating at home.
Next week Walmart, the nation's largest retailer, will start requiring that customers at all of its U.S. stores wear face masks.
The state recorded 10,569 people hospitalized with COVID-19 on Tuesday.
Under the proposed legislation, each member of a household would receive $1,200, including children, up to a maximum family limit of $6,000.
The chart displays flu and COVID-19 data that's misleading to compare, the department said..
Dallas County will opt for its own COVID-19 testing which will return results within 1 to 3 days.
"You can beat this thing. It took me a hundred days to do it. Actually today is the 101st day!" Sgt. Vincente Remediz said.
The county also reported 1,000 additional COVID-19, bringing the total case count in Dallas County to 35,914.
Health officials are reporting another person has died in Denton County from COVID-19.
The decision was announced after four months of cost-saving measures, budget cuts and salary decreases.
An ICU nurse in Texas has found herself in the position of some of the same patients she's spent weeks treating -- hospitalized with COVID-19, but her medical emergency happened after she tested negative for the virus.
The President of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America discusses the impact of COVID-19 on cancer treatments and screenings and the main concerns right now for cancer patients.
Health officials reported the deaths of a 61-year-old Plano woman and a 79-year-old McKinney man, both with underlying health conditions and COVID-19.
On one side are parents saying, let kids be kids. They object to masks and social distancing in classrooms this fall. On the other side are parents and teachers calling for safeguards that would have been unimaginable before the coronavirus pandemic.
Superintendents of the state's largest school districts are pushing back against a planned return to campus next month.
Texas health officials are betting big on a small Frisco company, MTX Group, to keep the coronavirus from spreading.
Under the governor's orders, voters are not required to wear masks inside polling places, but it is strongly recommended.
State health officials reported 5,655 new COVID-19 cases and 43 more deaths on Monday.
"It certainly is unpleasant and inconvenient to our guests, but how much more inconvenient to have to suffer COVID-19?"
Students at Denton ISD will get an extra two weeks of summer after trustees voted to delay the first day of class to August 26.
The event will be held in the parking lot of the AISD Dan Dipert Career and Technical Center in East Arlington on Thursday, July 16.
The county also confirmed six more deaths, bringing the total to 457.
With a little more than a month to go before the start of the school year, the University Interscholastic League has released guidelines to help teams navigate practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monday morning the Texas Supreme Court upheld the City of Houston's refusal to allow the state Republican convention to hold in-person events due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Another North Texas tradition has fallen victim to the novel coronavirus. On Monday officials announced that the 34th Annual GrapeFest has been cancelled.
