Our Stories on COVID-19
For Choctaws, not attending funeral services may be the hardest part of the COVID-19 public-health guidance to follow. It’s hard to be told not to attend services or to be able to provide physical comfort for the family in mourning.
Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons’ decision to order churches in his Delta town to stop in-person worship services to slow the spread of COVID-19 has drawn support from some local pastors and criticism from the governor and U.S. Attorney General.
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Mississippi neared 2,000 last Tuesday, the state’s governor, Tate Reeves, was preoccupied with another matter: how to
We wait in lines, 6 feet apart, to enter the grocery store. We wave at our loved ones through computer screens. We don’t touch each other anymore. The world has entered the Covid Zone.
Mississippi universities are working on some innovative solutions to challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19, including low-cost ventilators, 3-D printed masks and more.
During Francisca Morales Diaz’ last week at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in mid-March, guards told her and the 71 other women in her cell block that they would soon run out of toilet paper and soap, even as the novel coronavirus was spreading across the south. Diaz, a diabetic whose disease makes her especially susceptible to COVID-19, had already spent nearly eight months in ICE custody in the prison.
After weeks of rejecting calls for a statewide “shelter-in-place” order, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said the time had come for one on Wednesday afternoon, the
A Marion County, Miss., woman is worried about her grandmother’s safety after an employee at her nursing home in Columbia tested positive for COVID-19. The granddaughter contacted the Mississippi Free Press last night saying that the facility, The Grove, had disclosed the news to her family that evening. Shortly afterward, the nursing home sent a letter to residents’ families.
Roadside mannequins are inviting residents of Moss Point, Miss., to resume shopping at a local clothing store, restaurants are returning their dine-in services, and churches
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