COVID-19 testing

The Summit County health department has run out of rapid at-home tests due to high demand, according to spokesperson Marlene Martin. The department expects a new shipment Thursday or Friday, she said.

The faster spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus makes it harder for public health officials to trace. About 5 to 8 people are likely to become infected from one person with COVID-19 compared with 1 to 3 people at the beginning of the pandemic.

This decision comes after the FDA granted full approval to Pfizer's vaccine earlier this week.

At-home test kits are available at libraries, schools and public health departments around Ohio.

Akron Children’s Hospital will require its employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine; a crowd gathered outside of Summa Health’s Akron campus Monday night to protest the hospital’s vaccine requirement; the Cuyahoga County Commons Pleas Court's General Division employees are required to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Oct. 15; and more stories.

The conclusion comes after an audit on the state's coronavirus website.

The University of Akron is underway with its COVID-19 wastewater monitoring project, where a team collects wastewater samples from on-campus facilties, attempting to measure copies of a gene from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The state purchased 2 million of the BinaxNOW tests with federal CARES Act funding.

New coronavirus cases in Ohio shot up Thursday with more than 7,200 cases; Gov. Mike DeWine says the state will spend $50 million in federal pandemic aid dollars to buy 2 million coronavirus tests for at-home testing; the number of Ohioans filing initial unemployment claims jumped again last week; and more stories.

Gov. Mike DeWine is calling on Ohioans to slow the spread of the coronavirus as Christmas approaches; Kent State University has been named as a target in a massive data breach linked to Russia; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has given the Ohio National Guard a waiver to help administer the vaccine; and more stories.