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This tests will be given from April 28 to May 4 to pinpoint the spread of COVID-19.

Health Officials Visit Select Homes In Metro Atlanta To Test For COVID-19

Several health agencies are partnering to fight coronavirus in Metro Atlanta.

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Gov. Brian Kemp delivers an update on coronavirus in Georgia.

Citing ‘Unleveraged Capacity,’ Georgia Officials Implore Residents To Get Tested For COVID-19

While Georgia has expanded capacity, criteria and availability of COVID-19 testing across the state, not enough people are actually going to get tested,...

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A loggerhead sea turtle crawled up onto Cumberland Island over the weekend to lay the year's first nest.

Sea Turtle Nesting Season Begins On Cumberland Island

A loggerhead sea turtle laid the first nest of the year on Cumberland Island over the weekend.

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What You Need To Know: Presidential Powers In Times Of Crisis

Georgia Public Broadcasting’s new series What You Need To Know: Coronavirus provides succinct, fact-based information to help you get through the...

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Ashley Mackay bartends at Guston's Bar and Grille in Woodstock. She's relieved the place is open for indoor dining again.

How Bowling Alleys, Restaurants Choose Whether To Reopen In Georgia

Local restaurants and bowling alleys in Georgia are either celebrating a reopening Monday or letting customers know why they've chosen to stay...

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Barber Marian Searcy cuts Shaquille Sanders' hair in the shop Searcy helps run in downtown Macon Friday. "Just me being a man and the stress of me being a man, to provide for my household, that's my drive for coming back to work," Searcy said.

Balancing Safety, Bank Accounts As COVID-19 Strictures Ease

Macon barber Marshall Hughes, like barbers across Georgia, has been idle lately. Not so for his daughter. She’s in her second year as a nurse at the...

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Heat could be a key player in disinfecting facial masks.

UGA Professor: Heat Can Be Used To Disinfect Facial Masks

Heat could be a key player in the fight against COVID-19.

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Three workers place a to go order at the Waffle House restaurant on Riverside Drive in Macon on the morning of April 27, 2020, the first day Georgia restrictions on dining in restaurants were eased during the coronavirus crisis.

Georgia Coronavirus Updates: Kemp Holds Day Of Prayer; Restaurants Reopen Dining Rooms

Gov. Brian Kemp is holding a “Day of Prayer” service at the Capitol Monday as some restaurants begin to allow patrons back into their dining rooms. Kemp...

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Tequila's Town is one of many downtown Savannah restaurants staying open for to-go only even as the state allows dining rooms to reopen.

Savannah Restaurants Stick To Take-Out As Restrictions Ease

Georgia restaurants can offer dine-in service again Monday under Gov. Brian Kemp's heavily-criticized plan to ease coronavirus restrictions.

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Desks sit empty in a classroom.

Coronavirus Uncovers Georgia's Rural Education Divide

As schools in Grady County closed temporarily amid the outbreak of the coronavirus in March, Superintendent Kermit Gilliard asked teachers to reach out...

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A woman in the passenger seat of a car is swabbed for a COVID-19 test at a mobile testing site in Oklahoma.

Georgia Coronavirus Updates: Rural Mobile Testing, $148K For Poison Center After Calls Spike

This week in Georgia brings mobile testing for COVID-19 to more rural parts of the state, the reopening of indoor dining in restaurants and more money...

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What You Need To Know: Could Georgia See A Second Peak?

Georgia Public Broadcasting’s new series What You Need To Know: Coronavirus provides succinct, fact-based information to help you get through the...

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Signage is posted on the inside windown of a Waffle House restaurant, near Kennesaw State, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in Kennesaw, Georgia. The Norcross-based chain is ready to reopen this week.

Georgia Coronavirus Updates: Waffle House Readies To Reopen; CDC Adds 6 Symptoms

Georgia continues to move forward with Gov. Brian Kemp's plan to "revive" the economy. That means businesses including barber shops, nail salons and...

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A woman mourns at the site of a mass burial at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Tuesday, April 21, 2020.

How Deaths From COVID-19 Compare To Georgia Car Crashes, Flu, Overdose

COVID-19 is on track to kill more people in Georgia than drug overdoses or car crashes. The disease caused by the coronavirus has already killed more...

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Since the coronavirus pandemic shut down income sources for already struggling families, Helping Mamas has seen a sharp increase in the demand for childcare supplies.

Childcare Supply Nonprofit, Helping Mamas, Scales Up To Meet Increased Demand During COVID-19

Another cog in the supply chain disrupted by the pandemic: diapers. And as struggling families with young children face more challenges to making ends...

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