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Compared to two months earlier, an additional 3.5 million Ohioans hunkered down in April at the height of Gov. Mike DeWine’s 40-day stay-at-home order. After a week of slowly reopening the state economy, 80% of these people have left their homes, according to an Akron Beacon Journal and USA TODAY analysis of cellphone data compiled by SafeGraph, a third-party analytics firm.

The league wants to come back in July. Medical professionals say that’s possible—but have plenty of concerns about how it could happen. 

A team of UCD academics wants the State to incentivise companies to invest in anti-coronavirus safety measures, after a study suggested that businesses that spend to protect workers and customers are 20 per cent more likely to go bust.

Alabama, North Dakota, and South Carolina are the first states to publicly comment about using Apple and Google’s COVID-19 contact tracing technology, now available to public health agencies on both iOS and Android.