Here are the coronavirus news stories we’ve been following today:

  • A total of 665 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Arizona on Friday, March 27, according to the morning report from the Arizona Department of Health Services.

  • With the Arizona Department of Health Services announcing the stateโ€™s COVID-19 transmission level to be โ€œwidespread,โ€ sectors from private businesses to the state government are implementing new plans to combat the steadily growing pandemic.

  • Internal Emails from the CDC show how chaos slowed the early response to coronavirus.

  • The #SceneFromASocialDistance for today came from early morning grocery shopping experience, or more specifically, the line to get in.

  • In an interview with ProPublica, Dr. Fineberg talks about how our goal should be to flatten the curve.

  • As with many businesses, dispensaries continue to adapt to daily societal change in the face of the COVID-19 virus. While non-essential businesses remain closed for the foreseeable future, dispensaries continue to maintain recommended measures to keep patients and staff safe.

  • As basic necessities and rest-stop options become limited across the nation during the coronavirus pandemic, the Triple T Truckstop is stepping up to make sure truck drivers on Interstate 10 have what they need and a safe, clean place to lay their head.

  • As the question of whether Arizonaโ€™s public schools will reopen before the scheduled date of summer break hangs in the air, administrators now know they will not have to extend the academic year.

  • A group of researchers from the University of Arizona’s College of Engineering and College of Medicine are 3D printing medical masks for health care workers at Banner Medical Center.

  • As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, so have confrontations between detainees and guards at Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities across the country.

  • We continue to update our list of restaurants still serving Tucsonans.