Americans braced for what the nation’s top doctor warned Sunday would be “the hardest and saddest week” of their lives while Britain assumed the unwelcome mantle of deadliest coronavirus hotspot in Europe.
The U.S. surgeon general offered some of the starkest warnings yet Sunday as he braced Americans for the worsening fallout from the new coronavirus, warning “this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly.”
North Carolina health officials reported a total of 2,402 cases of coronavirus across 88 counties on Saturday morning. There have also been 25 virus-related deaths, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) and Mecklenburg County Public Health.
On Saturday, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control released the number of negative COVID-19 results it’s received from both public and private labs.
First responders are unfortunately at a high risk for contracting the coronavirus because of the job they have to do. Murrells Inlet-Garden City Fire thinks they’ve come up with a way to reduce that risk.
Myrtle Beach’s city manager issued an emergency order Friday night that clarified whether owners of accommodations units could use them during the coronavirus emergency.
U.S. Senator Tim Scott and the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce held a teleconference to answer questions from South Carolina business owners on the economic relief package passed last week.
With restaurants still closed for dine-in, many around the Grand Strand are wondering how to support area businesses while keeping their family safe during the coronavirus pandemic.
President Donald Trump warned Saturday that the county could be headed into its “toughest” weeks yet as the coronavirus death toll mounts, but at the same time he expressed growing impatience with social distancing guidelines and said he’s eager to get the country reopened and its stalled economy ba
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MICHELLE R. SMITH, MARINA VILLENUEVE and REBECCA SANTANA
