Update April 6, 1:20 p.m. — The original live updates page is functioning again and will continue to be updated moving forwarded. This page will no longer be updated.
Editor's note: Our original article containing live updates on everything related to the coronavirus and its impact on the Auburn-Opelika area is currently down on our website publishing server, and we are not able to access the article to update it.
As we work to fix our original live updates story, however, please refer to this page for the time being. Here, we will house our coronavirus coverage in the same bulleted format beginning Sunday, April 5.
Coronavirus live updates for Auburn-Opelika area:
April 5, 9:19 p.m. — 110 cases in Lee County, 1,841 cases in Alabama
April 5, 11:05 a.m. — 105 cases in Lee County, 1,676 cases in Alabama

Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in collaboration with Colorado State University, this highly magnified, digitally colorized scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image, reveals ultrastructural details at the site of interaction of two spherical shaped, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) viral particles, colorized blue, that were on the surface of a camel epithelial cell, colorized red.
- As of Sunday morning, there 105 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Lee County and 1,676 total cases in the state, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.
- ADPH also reports three deaths in the state as a result of the coronavirus.
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