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Sterling biotech firm launches COVID-19 test
Sterling-based biotech company Aperiomics has launched a COVID-19 test available for to medical providers nationwide for $250 per sample. Aperiomics says it has the capacity to process and deliver results on 1,000 tests per week. The company says it can turn around results from its Xplore-COVID-19 tests within 48 to 72 hours of receiving a […]
Va. now has 100+ cases as COVID-19 spreads statewide
As of Friday, Virginia has 114 confirmed cases of COVID-19, which now has spread to every region of the commonwealth, State Health Commissioner Dr. M. Norman Oliver confirmed during the state’s daily coronavirus news conference. “We do not have a medicine for COVID-19. We do not have a vaccine,” Oliver said. “[...]
Federal tax filing deadline moved to July 15
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government has moved tax filing deadlines from April 15 to July 15, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin announced Friday in a pair of tweets. Virginia state tax returns are still due on May 1, but the state is granting a one-month extension for payment of individual […]
Altria CEO Howard Willard contracts coronavirus
Henrico County-based Altria Group Inc. CEO Howard Willard has tested positive for COVID-19 and is taking a temporary medical leave of absence, Altria’s executive vice president and general counsel Murray Garnick told all salaried and hourly employees through a memo released late Thursday. “Howard has been out of the [...]
Virginia extends tax payment deadline to June 1
Virginia is granting a one-month extension for payment of individual and corporate state income taxes by June 1, although tax returns are still due May 1, Virginia Secretary of Finance Aubrey Layne Jr. said during a state coronavirus news briefing Thursday. Anyone who pays their state income tax after June 1 will not incur late […]
Tegna receives new acquisition offer
Now the subject of a bidding war, Tysons-based broadcast and digital media company Tegna Inc. has received a new acquisition offer from investment firm The Najafi Cos. and religious broadcaster Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) that values the company at $20 per share cash, the companies announced Thursday. Tegna was once part of McLean-based mass media […]
Richmond ABC store near VCU closes due to COVID-19
A Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (ABC) retail store near Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond has been closed until further notice after a store employee’s roommate tested positive for COVID-19. Both roommates are quarantined at home. Located at 1217 West Broad Street near the corner of West Broad and North Harrison streets, the store is […]
Coronavirus spreads to Southwest Virginia
A Botetourt County woman in her 80s who is in serious condition at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital is the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Southwest Virginia, Carilion Clinic and Botetourt County officials confirmed Thursday. The woman was admitted to the hospital on March 16, exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms, according to Dr.[...]
Amazon warehouse worker in New York tests positive for COVID-19
Only two days after Amazon.com Inc. announced it would add 100,000 warehouse and delivery jobs — 1,400 of which are earmarked for Virginia — to combat coronavirus-related unemployment, a warehouse worker in its Queens, New York City, facility has tested positive for the virus. Amazon has a total of 10 fulfillment and sortation facilities in […]
Philip Morris USA suspending Richmond manufacturing operations after second coronavirus case
Henrico County-based Altria Group Inc. has temporarily suspended operations at its Philip Morris USA manufacturing center in South Richmond after a second Philip Morris employee tested positive for COVID-19, Altria Director of Communications George Parman says. Altria expects the manufacturing center to suspend its operations fo[...]
MicroStrategy CEO draws fire for denying COVID-19 is health crisis
Michael Saylor, the CEO of Tysons-based tech company MicroStrategy Inc., wrote a later-redacted three-page memo to his 2,400 employees this week arguing that COVID-19 is not a public health crisis and saying he refused to close down MicroStrategy’s offices and shift to teleworking unless he was legally required to do so. In the letter, he […]
SAIC wins $950M DoD contract
Reston-based Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) announced Thursday that it has been awarded a $950 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency — a combat support agency of the U.S. Department of Defense that includes more than 26,000 civilian and military personnel. SAIC will take over supply chain management of paints, preservation and sealing compounds […]
