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Timeline: 1 year into the COVID-19 pandemic in DC, Maryland and Virginia 03/05/2021 03:07pm • More than a year ago, reports began circulating about a mysterious new illness in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. It seemed like a world away, and it was — at first. That all changed March 5, 2020, when Maryland authorities announced the first confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the Va.'s high court asked to overrule Richmond Confederate statues case 03/05/2021 11:01am • More than a dozen Confederate statues have been taken down along Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, but a lawsuit claims removing them was illegal. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the statues removed on July 1, 2020 as part of a public emergency during racial unrest in Virginia's capital Va. schools can opt for remote learning during inclement weather 03/04/2021 05:35pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers insisted there will still be snow days for public school students, though the General Assembly recently passed legislation allowing unscheduled remote learning during inclement weather. Alan Seibert, superintendent of Salem City Schools, said during a sub Mixed reaction to DC mayor's 'tentative' plan for return to high school sports 03/04/2021 05:16pm • While all 50 states have reinstated some high school sports, D.C. hasn't. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday announced that will change in two weeks with a "tentative plan" to return teens to practice, but some think the lifting of the restrictions falls short. "So let me be perfectly candid that we 'Unacceptable' — Van Hollen, local leaders seek to change COVID-19 vaccine inequities 03/04/2021 10:53am • U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen said that despite the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on communities of color, Black people and Latinos are far behind white people in the number of people who have received the potentially lifesaving vaccines. Maryland is ranked 45th out of 50 states in over 'We're ready:' Montgomery Co. moves ahead with plan for large vaccination site 03/03/2021 04:29pm • Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, are moving ahead with plans to open a large vaccination site in a northern part of the county hard-hit by the coronavirus, even as they're still waiting for the state to give the site a stamp of approval — and supplies of more vaccine doses. For now, a Bill letting schools offer telehealth advances 03/03/2021 01:30pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. An emergency measure, already approved in the Senate, to allow each of Maryland’s 86 school-based health centers to offer telehealth was 2 Black activists on what changed in 2020 — and what didn't 03/03/2021 12:04pm • Last year saw the kind of attention, discussion and consciousness regarding race in America, and the D.C. area, that doesn’t come along very often. But how much momentum was there toward real change? And what can people do to maintain it? Two leaders in the D.C. Black community spoke with WT Capitol Police warns of 'possible plot to breach the Capitol' March 4 03/03/2021 10:45am • U.S. Capitol Police says it has learned of a "possible plot to breach the Capitol" by a militia group on March 4. In a statement issued Wednesday, the department said it has obtained intelligence about a potential plot that was apparently being planned by an "identified militia group." The statem Baseball to return to Nationals Park — but without fans, for now 03/02/2021 04:46pm • Baseball fans that have eagerly waited to catch a Washington Nationals home game will likely have to wait a little longer. The D.C. government has approved the Nationals to play home games in their park this season, but there will be no fans in the stands because of the on going pandemic. In a DC 911: 4 dispatches needed to help man lying on highway in DC 03/02/2021 03:51pm • It took 14 minutes and four 911 dispatches directing emergency crews to different locations to find an injured pedestrian who was lying in the middle of a highway running through the nation's capital on Monday. The Interstate 66 Potomac Freeway runs behind the Kennedy Center and between the Theod Preparing for next vaccine phase, Montgomery Co. urges more sign-ups to boost equity 03/02/2021 03:29pm • Health officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, say they plan to start putting hundreds of recently authorized Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine doses into arms as early as this week. As they prepare to soon expand eligibility at county-run clinics for residents 65 and older, county offi Virginia reports new case of COVID-19 variant that emerged in S. Africa 03/02/2021 09:31am • A Northwest Virginia adult has contracted the B.1.351 variant of coronavirus, the Virginia health department said Tuesday. It's the first case of the variant in the northwest region of Virginia, which initially emerged in South Africa late last year, and is associated with an increased transmissi Slow action on COVID-19 led to deaths at St. Elizabeths Hospital, report finds 03/02/2021 04:05am • More than a dozen patients at St. Elizabeths Hospital have died from COVID-19, and a new report suggests the hospital was slow to react to the pandemic. The report from Disability Rights DC, an advocacy group for people with disabilities, said that St. Elizabeths did not take aggressive and effec Maryland orders broad use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine 03/02/2021 12:18am • Maryland is receiving its first shipment of Johnson & Johnson's one-shot COVID-19 vaccine this week, which received federal emergency use authorization Saturday. "This week we will receive 49,600 doses of J&J and we are distributing it across the board," Maryland's acting Health Secretary