Sources of COVID-19 information, updates on the pandemic

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread around the world and in the United States, below is a list of resources for pandemic information:

The Georgia Department of Public Health provides daily status updates at noon and 7 p.m. Visit https://georgia.gov/agencies/georgiadepartment-public-health and Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaDPH

Gov. Brian Kemp’s office has updated press releases and information on the COVID-19 hotline people can contact if they feel they have symptoms or have been exposed to the virus at https://gov.georgia.gov/, on Twitter at https://twitter. com/GovKemp and on Facebook at (where press conferences are live-streamed) at https://www.facebook.com/ GovKemp/

Other state agencies with information on how they’re handling COVID-19 include:

♦ Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency at https://gema.georgia.gov/

♦ Georgia Department of Education at https:// www.gadoe.org/ and the Department of Education list of school closures and the date when each is scheduled to reopen at https:// www.georgiainsights.com/ georgia-school-closures.html.

♦ University System of Georgia Board of Regents at https://georgia.gov/agencies/board-regents-university-system-georgia

♦ Technical College System of Georgia at https:// tcsg.edu/

♦ John Hopkins‘ global dashboard for COVID-19 cases at https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/ index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

♦ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at https://www.cdc.gov/, and this one-pager from CDC will give you the basic facts on coronavirus without having to comb through the website: https://www. cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019ncov/downloads/2019-ncovfactsheet.pdf

♦ U.S. Department of State Travel Advisories at https://travel.state.gov/ content/travel.html

♦ World Health Organization at https://www. who.int