Nearly $27 million in grants has been awarded to 34 municipal and county governments in North Carolina in response to the adverse economic and public health impacts of COVID-19, Governor Roy Cooper announced today. The federal funds are being distributed through the Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus (CDBG-CV) program to assist local governments with subsistence payments to prevent ...(more)
Yancey County has a newly established COVID Helpline. The number is 675-6197. Currently the phones are only staffed during business hours M-F. The county is working to have volunteers answer calls between 5-7 pm through the week and 9am-6pm Sat, 12p-6p Sunday. There is also a new texting service to help folks get the most current information for local vaccination opportunities. For the latest ...(more)
Over the next few weeks Yancey, Mitchell Counties, as well as most other counties around the state, will not receive a complete allotment of first doses of the COVID19 vaccine. The leadership at the state level made a miscalculation and committed the majority of the vaccine to mass events in large metropolitan areas. The state has assured Emergency Management Coordinators and Health Dept ...(more)
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services launched a new online tool to help North Carolinians know when they will be eligible to get their vaccine. Find My Vaccine Group walks users through a series of questions to determine which vaccine group they are in. People can then sign up to be notified when their group can get vaccinated. “Given the very limited ...(more)
