Tag: Joseph Wendelken
Despite communitywide COVID-19 surge, colleges have kept virus under control on...
PROVIDENCE – As college students across Rhode Island are preparing for their fall semester final exams, local colleges have generally passed one very important...
Fatal overdoses in Rhode Island projected to hit record high this...
PROVIDENCE – Over the first seven months of 2020, there has been a sharp increase in accidental drug overdose deaths in Rhode Island, according...
Raimondo warns of rolling back to Phase II; will announce new...
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo said Wednesday Rhode Island is heading in the wrong direction for every metric in new coronavirus case trends.
"It is not a...
Raimondo urges keeping holiday celebrations local, refraining from travel
PROVIDENCE – While many Americans are starting to make plans ahead of Thanksgiving next month, Gov. Gina M. Raimondo Wednesday encouraged Rhode Islanders to...
R.I. added to N.Y., N.J. and Conn. travel advisory lists
PROVIDENCE – After nearly a month of Rhode Island being removed from a New York-Connecticut-New Jersey travel advisory list, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced...
COVID-19 tracking websites change testing calculations to align with RIDOH
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island's daily percentage of positive coronavirus tests have varied widely for weeks, depending on who is tracking the data and how...
Virus testing data raises questions
Rhode Island’s coronavirus cases have been on the rise for several weeks, but an inconsistency in the way testing data is being interpreted has...
R.I. residents added to travel advisories in Mass., N.Y., N.J., Conn.
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has been added to travel advisory lists in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York as of Tuesday.
Rhode Islanders traveling...
DBR’s COVID-19 transparency portal now shows if businesses come back into...
PROVIDENCE – The transparency portal on the R.I. Department of Business Regulation’s website listing businesses that received orders to shut down from the R.I....
Following discovery of falsely reported positive COVID-19 tests, 106 cases removed
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Public Health has confirmed that the falsely reported positive COVID-19 tests of 113 Rhode Islanders were conducted at...
