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Read More »What You Need To Know About Coronavirus In Florida
The Point, March 9, 2020: Florida Legislators Approve $25M In Coronavirus Funding
The state had its first two deaths from the virus this weekend.
Read More »The Point, March 5, 2020: New Gainesville Organizing Effort Aims To Help Ex-Inmates
Community Spring is the grassroots group's name.
Read More »The Point, March 4, 2020: A Third Coronavirus Case Is Confirmed In Florida
The governor says a relative of the other Hillsborough County patient tested positive for COVID-19.
Read More »The Point, March 3, 2020: Florida’s Confirmed Coronavirus Cases, How To Help Stop Its Spread, And About Those Bats
UF students in Italy also had to return to the U.S. and be quarantined.
Read More »Florida Has Two Confirmed Cases Of New Coronavirus
Florida officials tried to reassure residents Monday that the risk posed by a new strain of coronavirus remained low, despite revelations that two people had become the first in the state to test positive for the virus.
Read More »Gainesville Conservancy Defends Bats Against Coronavirus Fears
Research has found that bats were not the cause of the recent outbreak, a Lubee Bat Conservancy employee said.
Read More »The Point, March 2, 2020: Governor Declares Public Health Emergency In Florida Over Coronavirus Cases
Ron DeSantis said two people in the state tested "presumptively positive" for COVID-19.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 28, 2020: Alachua County Public Schools Work To Improve Chronic Absenteeism Rate
The chronically absent rate in the same school year in Alachua County was 11.6%, a third of a percentage point higher than the state average.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 27, 2020: Why The Gainesville Driverless Shuttle Service Is Suspended For Now
The small black and blue bus won’t be leaving its parking spot anytime soon.
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