Mecklenburg County is home to about 25,000 Muslims and more than a dozen mosques. For about 1,000 Muslim university students in Charlotte, the first celebration of Ramadan since COVID-19 restrictions were lifted means they will be celebrating with classmates rather than family.
A ransomware attack struck the Maryland Department of Health on Dec. 4, driving the systems offline in an effort to contain the spread. The outage has spurred manual COVID-19 reporting.