Public Health

Meeting to form a facilities' "rapid response team" of unionized laborers took place on Thursday.

A southern New Jersey military installation is on a list of potential coronavirus quarantine locations should the need arise. 

Philadelphia's teachers union has joined together with the Laborers District Council to offer a quick fix to asbestos contamination that has shut down many city schools.

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Officials say there’s no cause for panic, but are implementing widespread efforts to contain the disease.

The number of cases spiked more than tenfold in a week, including the highest death toll in a 24-hour period reported Friday.

The World Health Organization announced Thursday that the outbreak of a deadly and fast-spreading strain of coronavirus constitutes a global health emergency.

Crews in the Scranton School District are conducting air quality tests and making emergency repairs Thursday.

The first human-to-human transmission of the deadly Wuhan coronavirus has occurred in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.

For a second day, the number of coronavirus infections grew dramatically.

As anxiety mounts over the condition of Philly schools, many teachers wonder if their buildings made them sick. Lynn Johnson is one of them.

They’re following the volunteer model made famous by Planned Parenthood.

The Chinese exchange student visiting William Penn Charter School who exhibited signs of a respiratory illness tested negative for coronavirus.

A Chinese exchange student is being tested for coronavirus because he is exhibiting flu-like symptoms. Philadelphia health officials say: don’t panic.

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