Johnson County Public Health recommends indoor mask-wearing, “vaccinated or not,” in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s July 27 guidelines.  Johnson County Community...

INDIANAPOLIS — Iowa head football coach Kirk Ferentz said his team’s COVID-19 vaccination rate is “not quite 70 percent" as of Friday, the final day of the 2021 Big Ten Media Days. Ferentz,...

The COVID-19 pandemic may feel like a thing of the past for some vaccinated students in the U.S., but international students still live in fear for their overseas families. Redwan Bin Abdul Baten...

Johnson County is already surpassing the national COVID-19 vaccination goal set by President Joe Biden in May for 70 percent of adults in the United States to have at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose...

University of Iowa faculty and staff will start following pre-pandemic international travel requirements beginning June 1, and will no longer be required to obtain special approval and routing, according...

The state of emergency for state Board of Regents institutions has been lifted, requiring traditional student and staff life to return to normal in fall 2021. Regents President Mike Richards announced...

The Iowa City Community School District will no longer require face coverings under a law signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds Thursday morning, despite Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.   The...

Fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a face mask or socially distance in University of Iowa buildings, or elsewhere on campus, with a few exceptions including on the CAMBUS and in health...

The University of Iowa will host a second COVID-19 vaccine clinic for students on May 13 and 14 in the Iowa Memorial Union.  Students who received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine...

Only one new positive case of COVID-19 has been reported since May 3 at the University of Iowa. The single case was reported to be a student, making the yearly total of positive cases rise to 3,181.  There...

The Iowa Department of Public Health has identified two cases of the India variant of the coronavirus, formally called SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617, in Iowa. Two new cases of the variant were reported recently...

The University of Iowa reported zero cases of COVID-19 on campus for the first time since August 2020.  Since Aug. 18 last fall, 3,180 UI students and 493 employee self-reported COVID-19 cases...