Hogan allocates $70M for emergency Covid response as counties tighten restrictions

Maryland will allocate $70 million in federal funding toward initiatives aimed at bolstering the state's emergency response to the current surge of coronavirus cases, including stockpiling personal protective gear, adding more staff to its unemployment division, preparing for a vaccine rollout and testing public wastewater for the virus. Gov. Larry Hogan announced the new funding measures Thursday afternoon, just two days after his last press conference where he imposed tighter statewide indoor…