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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Restaurant, other restrictions rolling back GS professor skeptical: More ‘herd immunity’ needed Ogeechee Technical College paramedic student James Bear Sikes, seated, gets a bandage after getting a COVID-19 vaccination from nursing student Christeena Meade, left, during a clinic hosted by the college on Tuesday. - photo by By SCOTT BRYANT/staff
While longstanding COVID-19 distancing restrictions in Georgia are set to be rolled back Thursday, a Georgia Southern University professor would like to see more state residents get vaccinated against coronavirus first.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Georgia COVID restrictions set to ease Bulloch reports only five new cases since Friday
With the state set to roll back distancing restrictions in restaurants, movie theaters, gyms and other businesses, new cases of COVID-19 in Bulloch County continue to remain at their lowest daily levels in almost a year.
Gov. Brian Kemp signed an executive order last week that starts on Thursday and ends a ban on large gatherings, eliminates shelter-in-place requirements and reduces any remaining distance requirements at restaurants, bars, and movie theaters and between people at group fitness classes.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Wynn: Vaccines available, effective and safe Only two new COVID cases reported since Monday
Bulloch County received 4,200 additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine this week and the county continues to buck trends of rising coronavirus cases around the state and the nation.
Though the Georgia Department of Public Health no longer separates how many vaccines have been administered in each county, Bulloch has been allocated 31,470 doses by the state. That total, however, doesn’t include vaccines doses available at the local CVS, Walgreens or Walmart pharmacies.
On the same day more than 3.3 million additional Georgians became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, Bulloch County recorded its lowest two-week rate for new coronavirus cases since the earliest days of the pandemic.
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