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Coronavirus

Bars, restaurants can open Feb. 1 with restrictions

LANSING— Michigan restaurants and bars can reopen for indoor dining at 25% capacity and with a 10 p.m. curfew starting Feb. 1, and concessions can resume at casinos, movie theaters and stadiums, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Friday. The state health department’s coronavirus restrictions were ...

Many school employees in Northeast Michigan turn out for COVID-19 vaccines

ALPENA -- Many school employees in Northeast Michigan have already received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination, just two weeks after the state health department made vaccines available to them. The state on Jan. 11 expanded the number of people eligible to receive the vaccine, ...

Infections, deaths still climb, but other stats brighter

ALPENA -- Three more Northeast Michiganders have died after being infected with the coronavirus and 19 more are infected, but regional hospitalization rates are improving and hundreds of vaccines are being administered per day, data released today shows. The sixth death reported this week ...

1 new death reported as vaccinations ramp up

ALPENA -- Local public health officials couldn’t say today whether recently spoiled coronavirus vaccine shipments would affect upcoming vaccination clinics. State health officials said on Tuesday that 21 shipments of the Moderna vaccine were spoiled en route to Michigan after the shipment ...

Communication, state allotments an issue in vaccine rollout

ALPENA — District Health Department No. 4 Health Officer Denise Bryan told her board on Tuesday she has advocated strongly on behalf of Northeast Michiganders so the region can receive its share of the COVID-19 vaccine. Bryan told the county commissioners from Alpena, Montmorency, Presque ...