MORGANTOWN -- Gov. Jim Justice expressed his frustration over a COVID-19 reporting failure at a Jackson County nursing home through a new executive order or Friday. He's ordered the Department of Health and Human Resources and the National Guard to test and – if they've previously been ...
MORGANTOWN -- Gov. Jim Justice expressed frustration during his Thursday COVID-19 press briefing over people who fail to respond properly to nursing home outbreaks and said their jobs will be on the line. More positively, he talked about the arrival of federal CARES Act dollars and again ...
MORGANTOWN -- Gov. Jim Justice and his team again focused on rebooting the state after COVID-19 during their Wednesday press briefing. Justice and the others are calling it Phase 2. Phase 2 will begin, they said, sometime after they see eight to 14 days of no positive case growth. No ...
MORGANTOWN -- Tuesday's COVID-19 briefing from the governor's office had no new announcements but focused on what's around the bend as the cases level off and dissipate and the state reboots. COVID-19 Czar Clay Marsh called it “repatriation.” Gov. Jim Justice looked at the trends in ...
MORGANTOWN -- Gov. Jim Justice on Monday added Jackson County to his executive order list imposing additional restrictions to combat the spread of coronavirus. On Friday, at Jackson's request, he had chosen not to put it on the list because county officials believed they had the issue ...
MORGANTOWN -- Gov. Jim Justice on Friday added four more counties to his executive order list imposing additional restrictions to combat the spread of coronavirus: Wayne, Wood, Cabell and Ohio. A fifth county – Jackson – fell within the parameters, including total number of positive ...