Here is a collection of the things you need to know today.....

NEWS: 

Larry Lord is due home this afternoon, check out the plan to welcome him home while doing so safely according to WGME.

203,536 outages were reported without power early today according to CMPCO.com. (4:45 am). 45916 from Emera Maine.

Recommendations that schools stay closed the rest of the year, now the spring sports season has been canceled as well according to centralmaine.com.

Manchester Fire Department has posted a signed that only fire personal, and not law enforcement, enter the building at this time. Many communities let law enforcement use their facilities for various reasons according to centralmaine.com.

There is now a national flour shortage because more of us are at home; baking and stocking up according to WGME.

In the last three weeks there have been 76,000 unemployment claims, that is over twice the unemployment claims filed in all of last year according to US News.

Of the people currently on the Space station, two of them are Mainers according to US News.

COVID-19:  COVID-19 world map from John Hopkins University

County by county coronavirus count from centralmaine.com.

COVID-19 updates from Newscenter.

202 people have recovered and currently 560 coronavirus cases are in Maine, with the bulk still in Cumberland and York counties and almost 20% of the cases are health care workers according to WABI.

 


 

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