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Updated: 5:28 p.m., Friday, April 3, 2020 Six inmates at the Cuyahoga County Jail have tested positive for the coronavirus, and two more are under suspicion. All the infected inmates lived in the same area of the jail, and MetroHealth System is doing contact tracing to determine who could have been exposed to the virus. "The city and county health departments are working together to support Metro in this investigation,” County Executive Armond Budish said. “And it's important, I want to repeat: we are prepared for this."

The U.S. trails only Italy (16,523 dead) and Spain (13,055 dead) in the number of people lost to the pandemic.

Fourteen patients and employees at ManorCare Health Services in Parma have tested positive for COVID-19. ManorCare officials released more information late Wednesday about the situation in the senior care facility to “help clarify what a cluster of positive cases means,” officials said in a news release. Four sick patients, who tested positive, are being treated at hospitals. One patient is being treated at ManorCare on W. Sprague Road in what officials called isolation.

Updated: 1:04 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2020. Local healthcare providers are limiting visitors to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Northeast Ohio hospitals and healthcare providers announced new visitation and other policies this week.

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas held its first day of expanded hearings this Saturday. The unprecedented weekend hearings were part of an effort to prepare in case of an outbreak of coronavirus in the jail. There will be extra hearings at the Justice Center through Thursday of this week. According to court officials, the goal is to bring the average daily population at the jail down by 200. Administrative Judge Brendan Sheehan said 38 court cases were resolved Saturday that would have waited until at least Monday.

Cuyahoga County is giving its employees 80 more hours of paid leave if they exhaust their sick time during the coronavirus pandemic. Council voted 10-1 to approve the “emergency administrative leave” measure at a special meeting Monday afternoon. Employees who feel sick should stay at home, County Executive Armond Budish said, and those who can work from home should do so. “We don’t want people coming in to infect others if they’re still sick,” Budish said.

School lunch doesn’t look like it used to. Gone are the partitioned plastic trays the mandatory scoops of steamed mixed vegetables and mystery meat that a kid may or may not end up tossing into the trash. In addition to offering more nutritious options, lunchtime these days is subtly taking the learning process from the classroom to the cafeteria and empowering kids to make healthy choices.