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Downtown Tucson, Oct, 23, 2019.

News roundup: County considers mandatory employee vaccinations, rural towns scramble to prep for asylum seekers

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, March 17.

Unemployment leveling out at pre-COVID levels

Pandemic unemployment is still higher than regular unemployment.
A stage inside the former Ann Ott Elementary School in Phoenix now serves as the intake area for staff and volunteers with the International Rescue Committee who process asylum-seeking families staying at the former school-turned shelter.

Rural officials say towns are ill-prepared for asylum seekers

Mayor Chris Riggs says his town doesn't have a shelter or aid groups to care for families.
Downtown Tucson, Oct. 23, 2019.

News roundup: One million Arizonans fully vaccinated, Latino vaccination rates fall behind

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, March 16.
A syringe draws fluid from a vial.

One million Arizonans fully vaccinated against COVID-19

Herd immunity will be reached when 70% of the population is vaccinated.
Arizona State Capitol Executive Tower

Race for AZ Governor underway

Marco Lopez is the first to formally announce candidacy.
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Arizona reports 21 new virus deaths, sees clear trend of fewer cases

Related hospitalizations also declined to 473 down from the Jan. 11 pandemic high of 5,082
A COVID-19 vaccination record card is received following the administration of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Banner University South.

Latino COVID-19 vaccination rate still low in Arizona

The percentage of Latinos getting the vaccine is below the percentage of the state’s population.
Downtown Tucson, Oct. 23, 2019.

News roundup: AZ congressional race expects to be fierce, UA to expand in-person classes

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, March 15.
Organic marijuana being grown at an Arizona farm for processing into medical marijuana.

State sees first tax revenue from recreational marijuana

Marijuana sales put millions of dollars in state coffers in January.
UA wildcat sculpture sports a mask, July 2020

UA expanding in-person classes

The week of March 29 will see more students in classrooms.
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The number of COVID-19 patients occupying AZ hospital beds continues to drop

As of Sunday, 716 people were hospitalized due to the virus. Of those, 210 were in ICU beds
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.

AZ coronavirus numbers continue to drop to their lowest levels in months

Weekly percent positivity for COVID-19 diagnostic testing is at a five-month low
U.S. Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick speaking with supporters of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally at the Intramural Fields at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Positioning for congressional race underway

Kirkpatrick’s announced retirement makes for wide open race.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey sits for an interview with Arizona 360 in his office at the Arizona Capitol on Jan. 13, 2021.

Governor Ducey says Arizona can meet Biden's vaccine deadline of May 1

Arizona is currently vaccinating people 55 and older with plans to lower the threshold to age 45 by April 1

Former Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup dies

Walkup served three terms from 1999 to 2011

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