The body count keeps rising as COVID-19 tightens its grip on Mohave County.

Persons age 75 and older can start receiving COVID-19 vaccines on Friday, Jan. 15 in Mohave County.

The body count keeps rising as COVID-19 tightens its grip on Mohave County.

President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan Thursday to end “a crisis of deep human suffering” by speeding up vaccines and pumping out financial help to those struggling with the pandemic’s prolonged economic fallout.

The rapid expansion of COVID-19 vaccinations to senior citizens across the U.S. has led to bottlenecks, system crashes and hard feelings in many states because of overwhelming demand for the shots.

Another heated exchange between the members of the Kingman Unified School District board took place on Tuesday, Jan. 12 at the monthly meeting, resulting in all district schools going back to the hybrid model for the third quarter that will start on Tuesday, Jan. 19 and finish on Thursday, March 11.

COVID-19 claimed the lives of another 15 Mohave County residents on Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 12-13, according to the Mohave County Department of Public Health.

The number of people seeking unemployment aid soared last week to 965,000, the most since late August and a sign that the resurgent virus has likely escalated layoffs.

Arizona, currently facing the worst COVID-19 infection rate in the country, is teetering on the brink of having to ration life-saving care, leaders of the state's major hospitals said Wednesday.

COVID-19 has killed six more Mohave County residents, raising the death toll between noon on Friday, Jan. 8 and noon on Tuesday, Jan. 12 to 24.

Coronavirus deaths in the U.S. hit another one-day high at over 4,300 with the country's attention focused largely on the fallout from the deadly uprising at the Capitol.

Another 18 Mohave County residents have perished from complications of COVID-19, the Mohave County Department of Public Health reported the evening of Monday, Jan. 11.

Barely a month into a mass vaccination campaign to stop the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration unexpectedly shifted gears Tuesday to speed the delivery of shots.

Arizona on Tuesday set a new one-day record for daily deaths from COVID-19 as hospitalizations from the surge topped 5,000 for the first time.

The Arizona Department of Health Services reported 319 new cases of COVID-19 in Mohave County on Sunday, Jan. 10, and another 249 cases the morning of Monday, Jan. 11.

The death toll from COVID-19 continues to rise in Mohave County, with nine additional deaths announced by the Mohave County Department of Public Health on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 7-8.

Arizona, a national COVID-19 hot spot, on Saturday passed the grim milestones of 10,000 deaths and 600,000 known cases since the pandemic began.

Mohave Community College will start the spring semester on Tuesday, Jan. 19 in remote-learning mode.

New research suggests that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in the two more contagious variants of the coronavirus that have erupted in Britain and South Africa.

Arizona, beset by the worst CODID-19 diagnosis rate among U.S. states, on Friday reported over 11,000 additional known COVID-19 cases and nearly 200 more deaths.

The U.S. has topped 4,000 daily deaths from the coronavirus for the first time, breaking a record set just one day earlier, with the surge being driven in several Sun Belt states that experienced spikes over the summer.

The death toll from COVID-19 continues to rise in Mohave County, with five additional deaths announced by the Mohave County Department of Public Health on Thursday, Jan. 7.

Residents age 75 and older will soon be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Mohave County.

Another 19 Mohave County residents have died from complications of COVID-19, including a daily record of 12 reported by the Mohave County Department of Public Health on Wednesday, Jan. 6.

Arizona on Thursday reported nearly 300 more coronavirus deaths, a pandemic-high number of fatalities for the second time this week, along with almost 10,000 additional known cases.

As Arizona experienced periodic spikes in COVID-19 cases since last spring, Gov. Doug Ducey frequently resisted calls to take strong measures.

Through the month of December, mixed in with joyful Christmas messages, death announcements filled the Facebook page of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet as a coronavirus outbreak took its toll in a residence for retired and infirm nuns.

California is so swamped by the coronavirus pandemic that the state has ordered hospitals with room to accept patients from others that have maxed out on intensive care beds.

The Mohave County Department of Public Health is recruiting volunteers to register for its Medical Reserve Corps, which will assist with administering the new COVID-19 vaccine to the community.

The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office has reported a COVID-19 outbreak at the Mohave County Adult Detention Facility, with 18 inmates in one housing unit testing positive.