After the announcement made Mar. 12 by the Governor’s Office regarding the Covid-19 coronavirus, Southern Utah University is responded with the following statement: At the direction of Governor Gary Herbert, Southern Utah University will joining the seven other institutions of the Utah System of Higher Education and temporarily move from […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says gatherings should be limited to 100 people for at least the next two weeks in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Herbert announced the measure at at a news conference Thursday where officials from the University of […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation is now under a public health state of emergency declared by tribal President Jonathan Nez due to the growing spread of the coronavirus outbreak. Nev’s office said in a statement announcing the declaration Wednesday that there were no confirmed cases on the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah health officials say a woman older than 60 who had traveled recently to Florida, Nevada and the Bahamas is the second person in Utah to be diagnosed with the new coronavirus. Utah state epidemiologist Angela Dunn said Tuesday no community spread has been identified […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A second person in Utah has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus. The Utah Department of Health said Tuesday the person is older than 60 and in serious but stable condition at McKay Dee Hospital in Ogden. The patient from the Weber-Morgan County area is […]
Utah public health officials are contacting and testing Brigham Young University basketball fans who sat near a coronavirus patient at a game prior to the infection being diagnosed. The university said Monday the man had mild symptoms, and the risk the virus was transmitted widely at the Feb. 22 game […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State and local health officials say that the first known case of the new coronavirus has arrived in Utah. The officials say the person who has the virus is a man from Davis County who is older than 60 and believed to have been exposed […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox has directed a state coronavirus-response team to delete a tweet calling President Donald Trump’s comments about people going to work sick misinformation. The Republican tweeted late Thursday that he asked message to be removed because it appeared political. He said […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A state coronavirus-response team in Utah is calling comments from President Donald Trump ‘misinformation’ and warning people to stay home from work if they show symptoms that match the virus. In a tweet Thursday, the task force led by Republican Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox posted […]
