As the year comes to a close, COVID-19 case counts continue to climb nine months after the pandemic began. The Alamance County Health Department reported Sunday there have been a total of 10,583 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 147 deaths since the disease struck the area earlier this year.
Sunday’s case count indicates 644 new cases confirmed in the past week and 13 new deaths. The Health Department reported 991 individuals remain in isolation, while 9,445 have recovered and been released from isolation. Forty-nine people were hospitalized for COVID-related care as of Sunday.
An average of 111 new cases has been reported per day in the last week, including 165 on Sunday.
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Harrisburg, PA –Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Acting Secretary Jennifer Berrier todayannouncedOpens In A New WindowPennsylvania is preparing for the new CARES Act extensions for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) programs, while cautioning that delays by the federal government in approving the legislation will cause a gap in these benefits for more than 509,000 workers in the commonwealth. The CARES Act extensions will ensure Pennsylvania workers who have been affected by the global economic downturn caused by COVID-19 will continue to receive the unemployment support they desperately need for themselves and their families, said Berrier. L&I began reviewing the legislation last week when it was first unveiled and will resume making payments for the PUA and PEUC programs as soon as we get approval from the federal Department of Labor (DOL) to move forward.
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Just before midnight on December 21, 2020, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (the “Act”), a nearly 5,500 page stimulus bill allocating roughly $900 billon of much needed relief to United States businesses and individuals while funding the federal government until September 2021.[1] Six days later, President Trump signed the Act into law. The bipartisan Act touches many industries ranging from agriculture to financial services, and provides multiple forms of relief, including increasing funds reserved for PPP loans, providing direct payments to individuals, relaxing certain accounting and taxation requirements, and allocating funds to the hardest hit industries such as small businesses, entertainment venues and nonprofits.
Mainers Will See a Delay in Federal Unemployment Benefits
Unemployed residents will see a delay of at least a week in their federal benefits, according to the Department of Labor.
The good news is that President Trump signed the bipartisan COVID-19 relief legislation, which will allow for those federal unemployment benefits to continue. However, because of the timing of that signing, those benefits will be delayed for at least a week.
The Maine Department of Labor says Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) ended on December 26th and the legislation was signed by the President on December 27th. The interruption will cause at least a week s delay in people receiving their federal unemployment benefits.