(Salt Lake City, UT) – Governor Spencer Cox and Utah health officials discussed reasons behind the controversial decision to pause the Test-to-Stay program in Utah schools. Speaking with reporters Friday, Governor Cox said the decision was made in part due to a lack of COVID-19 testing supplies available. Both Cox […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities say a Rhode Island child welfare advocate believed to have faked his death and fled the U.S. to evade prosecution in Utah and other states has been apprehended in Scotland after being hospitalized with COVID-19. Rhode Island State Police say Nicholas Alahverdian was discovered after […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — State officials are giving Utah school districts more flexibility to move to virtual learning during the current surge in COVID-19 cases. Governor Cox and other state leaders announced yesterday that they were suspending the state’s Test-to-Stay protocols. Lawmakers were worried that the surge in cases […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican leaders in Salt Lake County won’t overturn a mask mandate implemented during an omicron variant surge of the coronavirus. Council chair Laurie Stringham said Sunday that testing lines are miles long, cases are up among students and crews are struggling to staff fire and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two Utah counties have issued indoor mask mandates amid a record-setting surge of coronavirus cases that has left long testing lines, shortages of monoclonal antibody treatments and strained hospital staff. Salt Lake County health officials made the order Friday, a day after Summit county. Both […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is again asking Utahns to get vaccinated and get booster shots as COVID-19 cases surge around the state. In a video posted to social media, Cox called vaccines safe and said they can help reduce hospitalizations and deaths in Utah. He also […]
The first time that Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19, the NBA didn’t even have health and safety protocols. It shut down the league instead. This time, the Utah Jazz center might just miss a few days. Gobert has tested positive for COVID-19 and was placed Thursday on the virus-related […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – Utah health officials are reporting the highest single-day rise in new COVID-19 infections. State epidemiologist Leisha Nolen says yesterday’s count of 72-hundred-and-47 new cases doesn’t tell the whole story, citing people using at home tests. UDOH also reported 44 more patient deaths. Hospitalizations continue to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Joe Ingles entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols on Tuesday, the first Utah Jazz player to be added to that list this season. The Jazz had been the only NBA team yet to have a player in protocols this season. All 29 others had […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Department of Health changed its COVID-19 isolation and quarantine guidelines to match recent changes from the CDC. Under the updated protocols, anyone who tests positive must stay home for at least five days, regardless if they have symptoms. After five days, that person […]
