Franklin County native and nurse Joanna Davis Malcom is pictured during her recent mission to New York City to help the city’s overwhelmed hospital system during the coronvirus pandemic.

A state health department spokesman explains why the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Franklin County dropped from five to three in Monday evening's Georgia Department of Public Health update.

The Lavonia City Council met outside Friday at City Hall to declare a state of emergency so that local police can enforce Gov. Brian Kemp's shelter-in-place order.

Citizens are being asked to return information to the U.S. Census.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday that schools will be closed for the rest of the school year and that he will issue a shelter-in-place order later this week.

Citing the need for in-state information on the coronavirus, Franklin County Manager Beth Thomas has asked the Federal Communications Commission to immediately move area counties to the Atlanta TV market.

Franklin County now has five confirmed cases of the coronavirus.

The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Franklin County grew to four on Monday.

The Franklin County Board of Commissioners and the cities of Royston, Lavonia, Canon, Carnesville and Franklin Springs issued their second joint press release of the week Thursday to urge citizens to comply with state mandates to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Georgia school officials took steps Thursday to scrap final exams and relax a wide range of other accountability rules for the state’s nearly two million public-school students who have been out of class since last week due to the impacts of coronavirus.   The action Thursday came shortly before Gov. Brian Kemp ordered Georgia’s public schools to remain closed through April 24.