At least 70 farming and fruit employees have tested positive for COVID-19 in Yakima County, the Yakima Health District said Friday.
” We recognize that all of our crucial infrastructure workers are at a greater danger of COVID-19 infection, and that the farming industry in specific is vulnerable due to the inability to stay home,” Andre Fresco, the health district’s executive director, was priced quote as saying in a news release.
The district is dealing with business and companies that have actually had several cases, notifying staff about the tests, the release said. The district did not openly determine the centers, or state the number of had cases.
Previously this week, the health department stated there are “strategies in location and testing set aside for contact investigations in work settings where numerous cases have been recognized.”
The Centers for Illness Control standards say necessary companies with validated cases ought to send out ill people house, keep track of individuals in close contact with temperature level examine arrival, guarantee 6 feet of distance in between individuals or have them wear masks, and often tidy frequently touched surface areas.
It is not suggested that critical facilities businesses shut down unless there are individuals who stay in the facility overnight, the health district said.
” COVID-19 is mostly spread out from individual to person, and as such, the most crucial consider COVID-19 in a place of employment is to make sure that individuals who have COVID-19 are determined and isolated in the house,” Dr. Teresa Everson, the district’s health officer, was quoted as stating in the release.
Case upgrade
Coronavirus Cases
The number of coronavirus cases in Yakima County increased to 759 since Friday.
Lilian Bravo, spokeswoman for the Yakima Health District, stated the number of deaths because the break out started has actually increased to 34, up five given that Thursday. The variety of positive cases represents an increase of 52 from the previous day, Bravo stated.
Nineteen individuals are presently hospitalized.
The number of cases is cumulative, Bravo stated, meaning that much of those are people who have given that recovered from the virus.
In Klickitat County, there have been 16 positive cases with three deaths, while Kittitas County reports 14 positive cases and no deaths, according to county health authorities.
About 200 of the cases are associated with long-term care centers in the county, including Willow Springs Care, Garden Village and Do-gooder retirement home in Yakima, Eminence Care and Rehabilitation-Parkside in Union Space and Toppenish Nursing and Rehab Center-Prestige Care. Of the deaths, all however one had a hidden health condition, Bravo stated.
Bravo said the health district prepares to launch a map next week showing concentrations of COVID-19 cases.
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