Covid-19 – The Macon Newsroom

Will COVID-19 kill off or boost planned downtown Macon projects?

May 22, 2020

Savannah Cunningham, right, and Taylor Reaves outside a Walgreens drive thru testing site in Alpharetta.

Mercer pharmacy students on front lines of Covid-19 testing

May 21, 2020

The Macon-Bibb County Board of Health sent Gov. Brian Kemp a letter Tuesday expressing concern over state-mandated budget cuts as health workers fight COVID-19.

Georgia budget cuts cause ‘grave concern’ for Macon-Bibb health board

May 20, 2020

Testing performed by a private lab in a church parking lot in Macon. Testers usually recommend breathing through the mouth as the swab goes to the back of the nasal cavity.

How To Get A Coronavirus Test In Georgia

May 13, 2020

Downtown Macon census response rates are low although dozens of loft apartments have been added in the past decade.

Census folks could come calling as Macon sees mixed response rates

May 11, 2020

Nidhi Shashidharai, a 2020 Mercer University graduate, earned a degree in environmental studies.

‘A weird goodbye’: Mercer seniors reflect on the way COVID-19 impacted the end of their college careers

May 11, 2020

Coliseum Medical Centers released results of COVID-19 testing since March 1 during a Chamber of Commerce webinar Friday morning.

COVID-19: Coliseum releases test results as Macon hospitals resume procedures

May 8, 2020

Nishi Patel at Chapman's Peak in Cape Town, South Africa.

Preparing for the Peace Corps during COVID-19

May 2, 2020

Absentee ballots mailed from Georgia's Secretary of State do not have a privacy envelope but contain a sheet of paper to be wrapped around the ballot before it is inserted in a yellow and white mailing envelope.

GA absentee ballots are different; Gov. Kemp’s COVID-19 order could limit poll workers

May 1, 2020

What’s next for some of Mercer's graduating Seniors in light of COVID-19?

What’s next for some of Mercer’s graduating Seniors in light of COVID-19?

April 30, 2020

Visit Macon, the local convention and visitor's bureau, cut last quarter spending about 35 percent due to uncertainty of revenue shortfalls due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CEO Gary Wheat said.

Hotel-motel tax shortfall hurts Macon-Bibb non-profit organizations

April 29, 2020

HCA's Coliseum Medical Centers and other hospitals will cautiously resume elective surgeries postponed due to COVID-19.

COVID-19 task force encourages hospitals to resume elective surgery. Is Macon ready?

April 24, 2020

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