Franklin
County has seen a huge jump in the number of COVID-19 cases this week
– mainly because of increased testing at the state prison in
Carrabelle.
The number of
positive cases in Franklin County jumped from 189 on Tuesday to 276
on Thursday.
There are now
112 positive cases among prisoners at the state prison in Carrabelle,
and 8 positive cases among prison staff.
There are
still 673 pending tests at the prison.
And while the
prison is adding to the total cases, health officials are also seeing
seeing community spread of the disease.
That includes
spread in households where one person contracts the virus and then
spreads it to others in the home.
They have
also seen some cases from businesses as well as gatherings including
funerals.
And they have
seen cases in local health care workers.
Gulf County
has also seen a big jump in COVID-19 cases.
The number of
Gulf County cases increased from 415 on Tuesday to 490 on Thursday.
The state
prison in Gulf County is reporting 112 cases of COVID-19 in prisoners
and 25 cases among prison staff.
Wakulla
County reported 651 cases on Thursday and Liberty County reported
384.
People can
keep up with local COVID information by reading the Covid updates
every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
If you don't
get the updates you can have them sent to your phone by texting
FRANKLINCV19 to 888777.
You can also
go the the Florida Department of health COVID dashboard on-line for
daily updates.
http://live.oysterradio.com/
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