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President Trump claimed New Zealand is seeing a "big surge" in coronavirus cases on the same day New Zealand reported nine new cases and the U.S. added nearly 42,000.

Updated: 5:17 p.m., Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Gov. Mike DeWine is ordering all county fairs taking place after July 31 to allow only junior fair activities. The Lorain County Fair Board made a similar decision with a Monday night vote. For weeks, the Lorain County Fair Board faced criticism and calls to cancel the fair from the mayor of the Village Wellington, Lorain County Commissioners and others.

Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC) is calling on chain pharmacies to provide more COVID-19 testing within the City of Cleveland. The organization says current testing focuses on more affluent suburbs and exacerbates existing racial health inequities.

Cleveland’s former safety director failed to follow the consent decree when disciplining police officers, handing down light punishments without sufficient rationale, the monitor of the federal police reform agreement said in a Monday court filing.

Calling the decision heartbreaking, the Cleveland St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee has canceled the annual event downtown for the second straight year by a unanimous vote. "We met with our directors last week," parade executive director Linda Carney said Wednesday. "We reviewed all of the events that have been happening around the country with the vaccines and just the rise in cases and we just thought it would be best to bring it to our organization as a whole and put it to a vote."

Gov. Mike DeWine said the next 21 days are crucial for Ohio to get through the current surge of COVID-19 cases.

Cleveland police had few answers to questions about why they were so unprepared for the May 30 demonstrations in Downtown Cleveland. During a city council safety committee meeting Wednesday, council members questioned how the Cleveland Division of Police missed the plans of so-called “outside agitators” to disrupt an otherwise peaceful protest.

Cuyahoga County health officials are expecting to receive far fewer COVID-19 vaccine doses than the number of residents now eligible to receive it. The county begins Phase 1B of vaccination distribution this week, Health Commissioner Terry Allan told county council Tuesday, using the limited number of doses delivered so far.

Members of Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC) are getting trained to host question-and-answer sessions about the COVID-19 vaccine in their communities, expanding the number of people available to address Clevelanders' questions and concerns – without pressuring anyone to get vaccinated. About 45 GCC members have attended training sessions with the Union of Concerned Scientists, according to GCC Executive Director Keisha Krumm. Those members will go on to host their own sessions in March.

Investigators say Connecticut resident Patrick Edward McCaughey III pinned an officer against a door during the Capitol insurrection.