COVID-19

Gov. Greg Abbott is tightening travel to Texas by ordering some motorists from Louisiana to self-quarantine for two weeks. Electronic signs about the quarantine are already posted along interstate highways. The new travel restrictions come as Louisiana’s status as a coronavirus hotspot grew Sunday to more than 3,500 positive cases.

Governor Greg Abbott Sunday held a press conference at the State Capitol where he provided new information on the state’s health care capacity and issued additional Executive Orders. (video from NBC News)

Total Tests 25,483 Public Labs 3,457 Private Labs 22,026 Cases Reported 2,552 Deaths 34

The family of John Prine says the singer-songwriter is critically ill and has been placed on a ventilator while being treated for COVID-19-type symptoms. A message posted on Prine’s Twitter page Sunday said the “Angel from Montgomery” singer entered the hospital last Thursday, and his condition worsened on Saturday.

Campbell’s Soup Company is making a $10,000 product donation to the North Texas Food Bank and $37,500 in financial and food assistance to the Downtown Food Pantry in Paris. The company also announced that hourly employees would receive an extra $2 an hour premium pay and others will get an …

Speaking at a White House coronavirus news briefing on Sunday, President Trump declared that “the peak in death rate” in the coronavirus pandemic “is likely to hit in two weeks,” and said the federal government will be extending its social-distancing guidelines through April 30. “The modeling estimates that the peak in death …

Joe Diffie, a consistent country-music hitmaker throughout the Nineties, died Sunday due to complications related to COVID-19. His publicist confirmed the death to Rolling Stone. Diffie was 61.

A Texas A&M-Commerce student has tested positive for the Coronavirus. The student had reportedly been living off-campus. The patient is reportedly 18 to a 30-year-old woman, had not been on campus recently and is in self-isolation. Official statement from Texas A&M University-Commerce The university has been made aware of the …

Hopkins County Judge Robert Newsom announced Sunday that Emergency Management had received notice that a second person had tested positive for Coronavirus and was in isolation. No information as to the patient’s age or sex has been disclosed. The latest infection was said to be community spread and not related …