coronavirus pandemic

A North Carolina dog that died after suffering an “acute illness” earlier this month has tested positive for coronavirus, officials said Monday.

Four months after it was originally supposed to be held, Connecticut voters went to the polls on Primary Day on Tuesday.

NBC Connecticut visited several polling places on Tuesday to get a look at some different COVID-19 protocols.

There were no new coronavirus-related deaths reported in Connecticut Tuesday, but the positive test rate jumped up to 1.4%. There were 117 new COVID-19 cases reported in the state, bringing the total to 50,684. There were 8,338 new tests reported, for a positivity rate of 1.4%. In total, there have been 909,305 tests administered in Connecticut. There are 70 patients…

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President Donald Trump joined a U.S. senator and a number of coaches hoping to save the college football season from a pandemic-forced shutdown.

Many parents have questions and concerns about going back to school during the coronavirus pandemic.

Hundreds of thousands of voters applied for absentee ballots for the primary elections, but with pandemic concerns and power outages from Tropical Storm Isaias, officials are concerned about the vote.

As some universities begin welcoming students back to campus, there is a push by town leaders to ask for restrictions on gathering limits.

The Metropolitan District and Yale University are partnering up to monitor for COVID-19 in wastewater in the greater Hartford region. The study aims to help with advanced warning of potential outbreaks. Yale researches have already been sampling New Haven-area wastewater since March, and found that increases and decreases of the virus detected in sewage predicted the results found by individual…

Two people returning to Connecticut from states under the travel advisory in effect were issued the first two fines in the state for travel violations. One person returned to Connecticut from Louisiana and the other from Florida. Both people were issued $1,000 fines for not filling out travel forms, according to Governor Ned Lamont. One person also refused to quarantine…

With tens of millions of Americans still out of work, approving another round of federal coronavirus relief might seem like an easy decision for U.S. lawmakers, but the first version of the CARES Act may have created some unintended consequences. That original financial lifeline was passed in March, giving Americans who lost their jobs an extra $600 a week, in…

With confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. reaching 5 million Sunday, by far the highest of any country, the failure of the most powerful nation in the world to contain the scourge has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe

U.S. colleges are asking returning students to promise to help contain the coronavirus.

Doctors, hospitals and medical students are ramping up efforts to register voters as part of a nationwide campaign this month

The Mid-American Conference has become the first league at college football’s highest level to cancel its fall season, surrendering to the pandemic that is threatening to halt the entire sport

There are few visible signs of the coronavirus pandemic that’s changing the world at the massive annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota

Reopening schools will be easy

COVID-19 has not been designated an airborne disease by the World Health Organization yet, but scientists believe there is enough evidence to prove there is the potential for airborne transmission. So what are the 1,187 schools in Connecticut doing to improve ventilation?  “Each school is different, each classroom inside a school is different,” Paulo Verardi, an associate professor of virology…