Covid-19

MANSFIELD — Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday defended his potential decision to again close bars, restaurants and fitness centers, saying the state has evidence of COVID-19 spread in those operations. The governor’s comments came as Richland County remained “red,” or level three, for the seventh straight week in the state’s color-coded, COVID-19 monitoring system. The […]

MANSFIELD — Richland County commissioners said Thursday they are not certain why the state may again close restaurants, bars and fitness centers as the number of COVID-19 cases continue to spike. But they do know that Gov. Mike DeWine continues to not share his plans with local elected officials before he announces them, as he […]

MANSFIELD — Gov. Mike DeWine will deliver a statewide broadcast on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. to “discuss the critical stage Ohio is at in battling COVID-19 and its impact on Ohio moving forward,” according to a press release from his office. The broadcast will be made available to networks in the state and also streamed […]

COLUMBUS — Ohio Governor Mike DeWine called a press conference of Ohio’s medical leaders Monday to announce good and bad news regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. On the positive side, Dr. Bruce Vanderhof, announced last week as the Ohio Department of Health’s chief medical officer, said drugmaker Pfizer revealed an early look at data from its coronavirus […]

MANSFIELD — A 60-year-old man has become the seventh inmate from the Richland Correctional Institution to die from COVID-19, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. Roderick Davis, who was sentenced to prison in 2016 on a kidnapping conviction in Cuyahoga County, died Wednesday at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Davis […]

COLUMBUS — Richland, Ashland and Crawford counties were all ranked “red,” or level three, on Thursday in the state’s COVID-19, color-coded ratings system. The announcement by Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Dept. of Health came on the same day the state announced all 88 counties were now considered “high incidence” for spread of the […]

MANSFIELD — Richland and Crawford counties remained “red,” or level three, in the state’s color-coded COVID-19 rating system on Thursday. Richland County again triggered two of the seven’s state Public Health Advisory System indicators, but remained red due to the “high incidence” level of the virus in the county. The county reported 237 new positive […]

MANSFIELD — A 72-year-old man has become the sixth Richland Correctional Institution inmate to die due from COVID-19, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. All sixth deaths have occurred in October, the ODRC said, after a coronavirus outbreak at the open-bay style prison in late September. The latest death was an inmate […]

MANSFIELD — Two more Richland Correctional Institution inmates have died due to COVID-19, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The latest figures raise the death toll to five since an outbreak of the virus began at the prison in late September. Both men died Wednesday at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical […]

MANSFIELD — Richland County remained “red,” or level three, on Thursday in the state’s color-coded COVID-19 rating system, despite the fact it met two of the seven indicators. The county has reported 158 new positive coronavirus tests in the last two weeks. In a county with a population of 121,154, that is 130.41 cases per […]