A Healthcare worker closes a plastic bag containing a coronavirus test kit

Brandie Hall administers a viral coronavirus test at a testing pop up in at the St. Paul AME church parking lot in Macon.

Credit: GPB News/Grant Blankenship

The mayors of some of Georgia’s largest cities are slamming a new order from Governor Brian Kemp, which aims to limit local efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

Headlines this week say Georgia just reached a troubling milestone: one million COVID-19 cases. But the state likely surpassed that milestone months ago. GPB’s Grant Blankenship explains. 

Pregnant people or those who have recently given birth and are not vaccinated against COVID-19 are at higher risk of serious illness and death. GPB’s Ellen Eldridge reports.

And one of the youngest people to hike the Appalachian Trail just finished the trek. He began it in Georgia.

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