COVID-19 coverage on KSL NewsRadio

Utah businesses and non-profits who are facing either dramatically reduced income or the prospect of having to find childcare should their kids’ school close, the potential impact of the coronavirus is dire.

The Utah Department of Health ordered all food establishments in the state of Utah to suspend dine-in operations due to COVID-19. The order takes effect Wednesday, March 18, at 11:59 p.m.

SALT LAKE CITY – Blood donation centers in Utah and across the country are seeing a massive drop in donors since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak.  Some program managers are calling it a “crisis within a crisis.” Blood drives at schools, offices and churches account for roughly 80 percent of the blood collected by […]

COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, UT — Salt Lake restaurants have built a website to help their businesses stay afloat. Fred Boutwell, the Director of Operations for Market Street restaurants, says business is down 65% since Salt Lake County shut down dine-in options for restaurants and bars. Boutwell says they have refrigerators full of food they haven’t been […]

Utah County confirms its first positive COVID-19 patient, making a count of 52 for the state so far, which includes 10 out-of-state visitors.

The Health Department confirms new Utah COVID-19 cases, and addresses the reality of testing shortages.

The tracking website Womply.com monitors grocery store spending. Utahns spent 261% more last week at the grocery stores than the same week a year ago.

SALT LAKE CITY — All missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serving in the Philippines who are not native to the Philippines are now being moved out of the country. In a statement from the church on Tuesday, they say the change comes due to a directive from the Philippines government. […]

President Donald Trump wants the government to send checks to Americans in the next two weeks in an effort to curb the economic cost of the coronavirus outbreak. That's according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Even though elected officials have called it unnecessary, and potentially dangerous, people continue to purchase bathroom tissue and water in mass quanities due to fears of the coronavirus outbreak. Pschologists say this "irrational" action shoudn't come as any surprise.