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Friday marks one year of APH's COVID-19 operations center Friday marks one year of APH’s COVID-19 operations center Austin Public Health officials are also asking Austinites to stay home for the big game and avoid attending or hosting super spreader events. At the time officials were monitoring travelers who had returned from abroad with a "mysterious respiratory illness," now known as COVID-19.   "It is bittersweet because most of us have folks that we personally know who have suffered from COVID-19 and we have folks that have died because of complications," said APH director Stephanie H...

University of Texas officials say they have detected the new coronavirus variant first detected in the United Kingdom among its campus community.

Austin's health officials have begun prioritizing some of Travis County's oldest residents who currently qualify for a coronavirus vaccine with more aggressive outreach efforts. Austin Public Health Director Stephanie Hayden-Howard on Friday said those 80 and older will soon receive a phone call to help them schedule a vaccine appointment once doses become available. Residents in that age group also will receive an email before vaccine appointments are posted to APH's website on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Hayden-Howard said residents 80 and older should continue to be patient and wait for the...

COVID-19 testing takes place at a drive-thru clinic in South Austin. The U.K. variant of COVID-19 has been detected in Austin-Travis County, officials announced Wednesday evening. Scientists don’t believe the variant is deadlier, but it is more contagious. Though it hadn’t been confirmed until now, Austin Public Health officials have been saying for weeks that a variant was likely present in the area. “While it is concerning that there is a confirmed COVID-19 variant in Austin-Travis County, it does not come as a surprise,” APH Director Stephanie Hayden-Howard said in a press release....

Officials said COVID-19 variants have likely been in the Austin-Travis County area for weeks, adding that a man from Harris County tested positive.