Maryland has leased two ice rinks to serve as morgues as it prepares for COVID-19 deaths to escalate, state Health Secretary Robert “Bobby” Neall told the University System of Maryland Board of Regents Monday. “On the grim side, I leased ...

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Maryland fiscal leaders are bracing for the economic impacts of a human health crisis that has effectively shut down business in the state in less than a month. Analysts, budget experts and economists have warned for the better part of ...

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Say you are at home and you see this headline: ¡PONGA DE SU PARTE PARA FRENAR LA PROPAGACION DEL CORONAVIRUS! It looks important in all capital letters, and you can recognize “CORONAVIRUS.”  But what does it mean? How do you ...

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Guidance on protecting employees and residents of nursing homes in Maryland from COVID-19 is now mandatory under an executive order issued by Gov. Larry Hogan. “As we have been saying for several weeks, older Marylanders and those with underlying health ...

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ANNAPOLIS — State health officials are issuing new directives to nursing homes and similar facilities as Maryland faces an explosion of COVID-19 cases. At least five dozen nursing homes in Maryland have reported at least one case of the virus. ...

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Maryland’s election board voted Thursday to recommend having in-person voting on Election Day in at least one location in each county for the state’s June 2 primary.

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Despite aggressive efforts to “flatten the curve” of the rate of transmission of COVID-19, the state will continue to see the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths climb in Maryland for weeks, Gov. Larry Hogan has told lawmakers. Hogan made ...

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Baltimore faces a deficit of $42.3 million in the current year’s budget stemming from the COVID-19 outbreak, which has rendered the preliminary budget proposal for the coming year irrelevant. Now the city is scrambling to figure out how to close ...

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Unemployment driven by COVID-19 is continuing to surge, says Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Secretary Tiffany Robinson. Robinson told members of the legislature’s Joint COVID-19 Work Group Wednesday that her agency is seeing an unprecedented number of claims ...

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Howard County Executive Calvin Ball’s administration is proposing a capital improvement plan that tops $250 million and includes $20.2 million to protect Ellicott City from future flooding. County officials in a call with reporters Tuesday acknowledged that an unsettled municipal ...

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