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Coronavirus

No path forward for pandemic-era waivers of unemployment benefit overpayments

CHARLESTON — While billions of dollars of fraud likely occurred nationwide due to unemployment benefits paid out during the COVID-19 pandemic, in many cases states overpaid unemployment benefits to out-of-work residents due to no fault of their own. Now, West Virginia officials are ...

Ohio COVID-19 information moving to ODH, DataOhio websites

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Department of Health will move all COVID-19 information from coronavirus.ohio.gov to the department website, the agency announced. All COVID-19 statistics and weekly reports are moving to the DataOhio COVID-19 reporting page, Health Department Director Dr. Bruce ...

Tyler County woman among latest West Virginia COVID deaths

CHARLESTON — A Tyler County resident was among three people in West Virginia who died in the last week from the COVID-19 coronavirus, the Department of Health and Human Resources said. The department in its weekly pandemic report on Wednesday reported the death of an 85-year-old woman from ...

Ohio health officials confirm case of new COVID-19 strain

COLUMBUS — A single case of the COVID-19 variant BA.2.86 has been detected in Lorain County, the Ohio Department of Health said Thursday. “At this point, there is no evidence that this variant is causing any more severe illness, hospitalizations or deaths,” Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, director ...

Two Jackson County residents among latest West Virginia COVID deaths

CHARLESTON — Two more Jackson County residents were listed as deaths in the last week due to the COVID-19 coronavirus by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The department in its Wednesday pandemic update said five people died from the virus in the last week, ...