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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Gov. Bill Lee (R- TN) visited the Memphis International Airport Friday and addressed the media on the COVID-19 pandemic. He announced the latest numbers: 1,203 positive confirmed cases of COVID-19 and six coronavirus-related deaths in the state. Before speaking with reporters, he met with local leaders, including Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, Shelby […]

Check out all of the Live at 9 interviews from Friday, March 27, 2020.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris announced a Stay At Home order Monday that would ban non-essential travel in the county.

American Job Centers across the state of Tennessee will immediately close to the public effective Monday, March 23.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Restaurants and bars in Shelby County will officially shutdown on Saturday night after an executive order from County Mayor Lee Harris. Harris says this approach encourages social distancing and slows down the spread of the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19. Beale Street is one of the places where bars have closed their […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Shelby County Health Department is concerned about people heading to work while showing symptoms of the novel coronavirus. The Shelby County Health Department Director Dr. Alisa Haushalter says a common theme health officials are seeing is that people are going to work, with symptoms, before they are getting tested for the […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris addressed the media about his recent trip to the Republic of Ghana amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Obviously, if I knew what I know now—that we were going to have the largest public health event this community had seen in 150 years—I wouldn’t have gone,” Harris said. Mayor […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, along with all the municipalities in Shelby County, have issued an executive order to temporarily close all bars, gyms and restaurant dining rooms. According to a release from the Mayor Harris’s office, the executive order goes into effect at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 22. The executive […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Mid-South family is concerned about delays in their adoption process due to the coronavirus cancellations at court. They didn’t give their names because they want to protect their family’s privacy, but they’re also speaking out for other families facing the same thing. “We were matched with a birth mom in Kentucky […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The mayor of Shelby County declared an emergency Thursday after the number of local corona virus cases in the county grew to 10. “We are in a moment unlike any other that any of us have ever experienced,” Mayor Lee Harris said. “This community has not had an epidemic of this magnitude […]

What started as a mystery virus last month in Wuhan, China, has now killed more than 200 people and infected thousands more around the world.