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FILE - In this Saturday, March 16, 2019, file photo, members of the Georgia Southern University Army ROTC Eagle Battalion marches in the Savannah St. Patrick's Day parade, in Savannah, Ga. Business leaders in Savannah, postponed the city’s 196-year-old St. Patrick’s Day parade Wednesday, March 11, 2020, amid concerns about the new coronavirus hours after Gov. Brian Kemp took the extraordinary step of asking state lawmakers to approve $100 million in additional funding to help the state combat the virus. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)

FILE - In this Saturday, March 16, 2019, file photo, members of the Georgia Southern University Army ROTC Eagle Battalion marches in the Savannah St. Patrick's Day parade, in Savannah, Ga. Business leaders in Savannah, postponed the city’s 196-year-old St. Patrick’s Day parade Wednesday, March 11, 2020, amid concerns about the new coronavirus hours after Gov. Brian Kemp took the extraordinary step of asking state lawmakers to approve $100 million in additional fund…

March 11, 2020

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Savannah St. Pat's parade scrapped amid virus concerns
March 11, 2020 9 p.m.

Savannah St. Pat's parade scrapped amid virus concerns

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Savannah called off its St. Patrick's Day parade for the first time in nearly a century, bowing Wednesday to the coronavirus outbreak as Georgia's governor requested $100 million in new state funding to combat the threat.