Gov. Mike DeWine has asked state health director Dr. Amy Acton to issue an order requiring nursing homes and other long-term care facilities in the state to notify residents and families within 24 hours of a resident or staff member becoming infected.
Thirsty Pennsylvanians can no longer cross into Ohio to buy liquor, at least not without driving a little farther west.
Reminiscent of the Like the ice-bucket challenge of a few years ago, which raised funds for ALS research, a Columbus DJ has started a similar social media campaign to support a local organization supplying food to hospital workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Officials say that the number of coronavirus infections in Ohio’s prisons has topped 160 and that the first inmate has died.
Columbus Public Health is steering a new initiative to reduce racial health inequities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Columbus police say they had to break up two parties held on the South Side over the weekend in defiance of stay-at-home orders and directives limiting gatherings to 10 people or less.
Ohio’s nursing homes have seen at least 45 deaths from the coronavirus. But the overall total across the state remains unknown.
Columbus police say two teenagers were shot in separate incidents over the weekend.
More than 50 Ohio State University medical students will graduate nearly a month early to begin fighting the coronavirus epidemic.
After most programs had spring football practice shortened or wiped out by the coronavirus threat, nobody knows for certain when or even if the 2020 college football season will happen.
