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With coronavirus cases continuing to rise and Charleston-area officials warning of a dwindling supply of open hospital beds, authorities continue to ramp up public health messaging. North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey signed an emergency proclamation Thursday requiring masks in public places. The rule goes into effect at noon on Friday. Those who refuse to comply with…

NH health officials announce season’s first case of Jamestown Canyon virus Virus is transmitted by mosquito; Loudon man recovering at home after hospital stay New Hampshire health officials have confirmed the season's first case of the Jamestown Canyon virus.>> Download the free WMUR appOfficials said the patient is an adult from Loudon who had to…

California lawmakers harshly criticized state corrections officials' “failure of leadership” Wednesday, saying they botched their handling of the coronavirus pandemic by inadvertently transferring infected inmates to a virus-free prison, triggering the state’s worst prison outbreak.A third of the 3,500 inmates at San Quentin State Prison near San Francisco have tested positive since officials transferred 121…

WTVG Channel 13 reports at least seven people have tested positive. Six people are from Lucas County and one from Ottawa County, the Sandusky Register reports. All of the people visited Put-in-Bay between June 17 and 21.The Port Clinton News Herald reports that the people who tested positive visited the Commodore Hotel, Mr. Ed’s and…

Prison officials are planning to bus as many as 150 incarcerated people out of coronavirus-ridden San Quentin State Prison to a Bakersfield-area institution as early as Monday, sources said, in a move critics and a lawmaker said is reminiscent of the botched transfer that triggered San Quentin’s outbreak in the first place. A spokesperson for…