North Georgia EMC has resumed collections for outstanding balances, after several months of suspension due to COVID-19.
The proliferation of services or products being pushed as cures or prevention for COVID-19 have caught the eyes of the Federal government. Since March, more than a half dozen Georgia-based companies have been warned by the Food and Drug Administration or Federal Trade Commission to stop making false claims about products related to the virus.
Some coroners are warning that autopsies could take longer and cost taxpayers more money as the Georgia Bureau of Investigation loses one of its medical examiners.
Georgia on Saturday became the 10th state in the nation to report that it has surpassed 5,000 deaths caused by COVID-19.
Georgia’s dove hunting season opens Sat. Sept. 5, 2020, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division (WRD).
Both local school districts have released their weekly COVID-19 reports. Chattooga County Schools announced that their are currently 53 people quarantined at Chattooga High School. Leroy Massey Elementary School has 18 quarantined; Menlo School has 8; Summerville Middle School has 14 and Lyerly School has 27. Trion City Schools are reporting 2 positive COVID-19 cases. See all the details below:
Days after the first COVID-19 cases were reported at a Summerville, Georgia, nursing home, the state is reporting the first resident at the facility has died.