The White House’s Guidelines for Opening Up America Again provide multiple criteria — related to symptoms, cases, and hospitals — for localities to meet before beginning to reopen businesses.
Memphis, unincorporated Shelby County and all six of the county’s suburban municipalities will begin reopening from the COVID-19 shutdown next Monday, May 4. Start of the first phase of the “Back to Business” reopening plan was announced Thursday, the same day Nashville extended its safer at home order until at least May 8 and a… Read More
COVID-19 is a new strain of coronavirus and cases are spreading around the Mid-South since the virus arrived in the United States in February.
Walgreens and Kroger are now working with partners to offer COVID-19 testing in the Memphis area.
As the Mid-South prepares to come out of quarantine, WMC Action News 5 is making sure you have all the information you need to continue navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said he’s not ready to reopen just yet, but here’s the framework and thought process: Factors include the number of cases, those hospitalized must be stable or declining for 14 days and hospitals must have capacity.
Parts of Tennessee might reopen next month, but that’s not likely for Shelby County, where cases of COVID-19 have continued to rise. On Monday, Dr. Alisa Haushalter, director of the Shelby County Health Department, walked through some of the things that will need to happen before her agency is likely to lift its directive that… Read More
The COVID death toll rose to eight – four each – on Monday, April 20, at the Carriage Court and Village at Germantown assisted care facilities – two of nine outbreaks of the virus at assisted living facilities in Shelby County.
