COVID-19

This blog is updated on Tuesdays and Fridays. It includes COVID-19 data from San Antonio’s Metropolitan Health District, as well as statewide reporting from The Texas Newsroom. For the latest local data, click here. For the latest state data, click here.

Además de los números de casos de COVID-19, Texas Public Radio le brinda información actualizada sobre qué medidas están tomando los negocios locales, cómo puede usted ayudar a quienes lo necesitan y qué puede hacer para entretenerse en casa. Además, TPR ofrece actualizaciones en vivo sobre el Valle del Río Grande.

Little is known about COVID-19 cases in which symptoms persist for months. Affected service members may have trouble performing their duties or getting treatment.

COVID-19 testing clinics around the country are closing, and federal funding for free clinical testing is drying up. But wastewater surveillance could step in to play a crucial role in keeping track of where the virus is and just how much is really circulating out there. In this episode, host Bonnie Petrie takes us to a wastewater treatment plant in Converse, Texas and talks to scientists trying to build a surveillance and sequencing program in South Texas.

Scientists who track COVID-19 in wastewater say regular surveillance of the sewers could be an effective early warning system for new variants and potential surges.

A day after a federal judge ruled face coverings can’t be required on airplanes and other public transportation, some Texans cheered the decision. But others said they’re still on the fence as COVID lingers.

Texas Public Radio le brinda información actualizada sobre el COVID-19 en el Valle del Río Grande y en el área de San Antonio. Puede encontrar las últimas noticias en español en “TPR Noticias" aquí.

Texas Public Radio is providing COVID-19 updates and information for the Rio Grande Valley and the San Antonio area. You can read news stories in Spanish under "TPR Noticias: COVID-19" here.

Community Labs President Sal Webber said the program was funded through a purchase order agreement with the Texas Division of Emergency Management, and the agreement ended at the end of March.

How to spend tens of millions of dollars in emergency aid from the American Rescue Plan Act is now in the hands of the San Antonio City Council.