Tag Archives: COVID-19

Tennessee has launched the COVID-19 Essential Employee Child Care Payment Assistance program to provide free child care for essential workers during the pandemic. The Tennessee Department of Human Services is announcing new child care assistance to support families that are serving the state in essential workforce positions. Through payment assistance and a network of temporary care locations, parents who work ...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee says COVID-19 testing numbers across the state this weekend exceeded projections. Sevier County had the greatest turn out of any testing site statewide. Lee announced today that more than 11,000 Tennesseans received free COVID-19 tests through the weekend efforts of Unified-Command Group to offer tests regardless of traditional symptoms. 910 tests were administered at the Smokies ...

Health officials say one Sevier County resident has died as a result of COVID-19 infection. Free COVID-19 testing is available this weekend. The Department of Health reports that out of 629 COVID-19 tests of Sevier County residents, 24 people tested positive. Of those positive tests, 22 people recovered from the infection and one person remains in quarantine. There is now ...

COVID-19 testing will be offered in Sevier County beginning Friday with a drive-thru testing center in Sevierville. Drive-thru COVID-19 testing will be available at the Sevier County Health Department, located at 719 Middle Creek Road in Sevierville, from 9 a.m.–12 p.m. on Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11. Priority will be given to those who have symptoms of the ...

Sevier County Family & Community Education (FCE) Clubs and 4-H youth are asking you to join in meeting this tremendous need for fabric masks through the statewide TAFCE Masks of Love Project. If you are making masks, and do not know who to give these to – please consider assisting with this project to help Sevier County! These fabric masks ...

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation announced that all 56 Tennessee state parks and state-owned natural areas are closed to the public. The closure will last at least through April 14 in support of Gov. Bill Lee’s Executive order requiring all citizens to stay at home. This is a complete closure of facilities and access to all Tennessee State ...

Tennessee’s governor issued a Stay at Home order Thursday in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19 cases as the state races to increase hospital bed capacity for an anticipated surge of cases later this month. On April 2, Gov. Bill Lee issued an executive order requiring all people in Tennessee to stay at home except for when engaging ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that all park areas, except the Foothills Parkway and Spur, will remain closed until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All access to the park, including trails and roads, were originally closed on March 24 through April 6, in alignment with efforts to control the spread of COVID-19 across the region. The ...

City and county officials released a statement today asking businesses in the tourism sector to stop marketing vacations to the area in an effort to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. A Message From the Mayors of Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Pittman Center, Sevier County and Sevierville read: “We are requesting that businesses in the leisure travel/tourism sector please stop soliciting ...

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee warns members that scammers are taking advantage of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and to be alert of potential scam activity. Reported scams include unsolicited phone calls that could be an attempt to fraudulently gain personal information. BlueCross is urging members and customers not to give personal information to these callers. “We want to advise all ...