FIND THE LATEST COVID-19 CASE COUNT IN NORTH CAROLINA HERE . FOR ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS CLICK HERE . Buncombe County this week released demographic information on confirmed COVID-19 cases in the county. The numbers showed the county isn’t seeing the disproportionate number of cases affecting African-Americans that the state has thus far.

As panic buying due to COVID-19 increased, so did the efforts of scammers. BPR spoke with North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein about how to stay alert: When the state of emergency was declared last month for North Carolina it triggered laws against price gouging explains Stein. “What we ask people to do is if they see something that is way more expensive then it was before the emergency, they should just let my office know,” says Stein. Stein says more than 1,000 complaints filed have been

Asheville resident Peter Landis was one of the first confirmed 'community spread' cases of COVID-19 in Buncombe County. The 71-year-old retired journalist was told on March 23rd he had tested positive, one week after he had been tested at his primary care physician's office. Landis had not traveled in recent months, and said he was not in contact with a known confirmed case of COVID-19. He has since recovered, and spoke with BPR's Matt Bush over the phone to discuss his symptoms of the virus,

Since the stay-at-home order, even more businesses have closed their doors. Here’s some advice from a local expert about how to keep the lights on while everybody is at home. Tiffany Henry is the director of Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center. Like much of the SCC staff she’s working from home. “Well working from home is a lot of fun but it also has a lot of challenges,” explains Henry over a Google Meet Up call. Henry says she has worked with around 50 businesses since the

Farmworkers are among the laborers deemed “essential” in the age of coronavirus, for their critical role in supplying produce to the nation's grocery stores and farmer’s markets. But these workers face conditions that put them at risk of contracting and spreading the disease.

At the western end of North Carolina, Cherokee County saw one of the state’s first confirmed case s of COVID-19. Here’s how local officials responded to the case: When the first diagnosis of COVID-19 in Cherokee County was announced only a few facts were shared. It was a woman visiting from New York . She didn’t have any symptoms until after she came to North Carolina. And she had been to a contra dance at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown . “I mean I think that has been the biggest

In February, Attorney General Josh Stein sent HCA Healthcare a letter requesting answers by this week about allegations the healthcare system is not following through agreements it made when the for-profit firm purchased Mission Health last year. Those answers were due at the end of March – this past Tuesday. Stein says he has given HCA more time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "I do not want to get in the way of their focus, in case there is an outbreak in Western North Carolina," says Stein. "I

I’m Matt Bush with BPR News and I’m joined by our own Lilly Knoepp who has been reporting on COVID-19 cases in the westernmost counties in North Carolina. She joins us from her office in Sylva. And she has joined us today to talk about one particular event that has caused a lot of the cases in the westernmost counties. So the two westernmost counties are Cherokee and Clay counties. A lot of the cases COVID-19 that have been reported and confirmed in those counties are tied to an event at the

The coronavirus pandemic has affected nearly every aspect of American life – schools, corporations and governments have all had to change the way they do business, but they’re not the only ones.

Hospitals in Western North Carolina are bracing for what’s being called a “surge” in Coronavirus cases in the coming days and weeks.