Members of the Virginia National Guard gather information from COVID-19 testing in the lower parking lot of Carroll County High on December 17. Director of Mount Rogers Health District Dr. Karen Shelton said the mass testing project was due to COVID-19 positivity rate of 24.2 percent in Mount Rogers Health District.
David Broyles | The Carroll News
A Virginia National Guard member performs a COVID-19 test on a participant during a mass testing effort in the Mount Rogers Health District at CCHS on December 17. Around 52 tests had been performed shortly after noon last Thursday. On December 18 the VDH launched a COVID-19 outbreak dashboard in response to the requirements of HB5048 of the 2020 Virginia General Assembly Special Session. It includes outbreaks in medical care facilities, residential or day programs licensed by VDH, Department of Social Services (DSS) or Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS), summer camps, and kindergarten (K)-12th grade schoo
Editorâs Note: The following information was taken from the intake reports gathered from the Sevier County Jail. All are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. Names may be similar to other members of the community.
⢠Robin Michelle Allen, 46, of 575 Indian Knob Circle in Pigeon Forge, was charged Dec. 19 with DUI and driving on a suspended license. She was released.
⢠Demonte Burke-Agan, 24, of Villa Rica, Georgia, was charged Dec. 20 with disorderly conduct. He was released.
⢠Elizabeth Campbell-Townsend, 54, of Summerdale, Alabama, was charged Dec. 19 with public intoxication. She was released.
⢠Matthew Blake Counts, 32, of 1448 Flatwood Road in Sevierville, was charged Dec. 18 with violation of probation. He was being held.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced on Thursday a curfew from midnight to 5 a.m., among other new measures, aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 in the commonwealth amid a record spike in cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
The curfew starts at 12:01 a.m. Monday for everyone except those going to or from work, buying food or goods, or seeking medical attention, and is tentatively set to expire Jan. 31, 2021. “If you don’t need to go out, go home,” Northam said at the briefing Thursday.
Asked about enforcement of the curfew, Northam said, “We will ask Virginians to follow those guidelines.”
Rep.-elect Bob Good calls the pandemic phony. Covid-19 has killed more than 300 in his district.
Meagan Flynn and Laura Vozzella, The Washington Post
Dec. 14, 2020
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1of3Rep.-elect Bob Good speaks in October at a campaign rally in Madison, Va.Washington Post photo by John McDonnell.Show MoreShow Less
2of3Supporters of President Trump rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington on Saturday to show their support for the president s fight to overturn his defeat to President-elect Joe Biden.Photo by Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post.Show MoreShow Less
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Rep.-elect Bob Good took the stage at Freedom Plaza on Saturday afternoon and looked out at a sea of masklessness. Thousands had come to march for President Donald Trump - some carrying signs declaring the novel coronavirus a hoax.
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