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Glenn County among 19 counties monitored in CA

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Glenn County among 19 counties monitored in CA
Glenn County among 19 counties monitored in CA

The state is keeping a close eye on 19 counties with concerning coronavirus spikes, Glenn County is one of those counties.

On 19 counties with concerning coronavirus spikes.

Glenn county is one of those counties.

Action news now reporter kristian lopez shows us how health officials there are being proactive.

Kristian: public health officials say most of the cases seem to be traced back to social gatherings.

They are seeing the most in northern glenn county, places such as hamilton city and orland.

Anonymous: it made me a little worried that maybe glenn county is not as well off as we thought maybe they opened up too soon.

Amy travis/glenn county public health: we escalated quickly because we are seeing a lot of spread at gatherings.

Now we are on the watchlist so we have to meet with the state monitoring task force weekly to discuss where we are and strategies to slow the spread in our community.

And we will continue to meet with them weekly.

Health officials now taking steps to slow the spread.

Amy travis/glenn county public health: we are making sure contract tracers are identifying contracts.

We are providing ppe to people in quarantine to use inside the house to slow the spread of disease inside the home as well.

Amy travis with glenn county public health says they're getting some free ppe and will be handing that out to local businesses soon.

Anonymous: i'm hoping that whoever is making decisions is doing the right thing and we have to close things back up and tighten things back up then we all need to do that.

Kristian: with the holiday weekend coming up health officials want to remind everyone that public gatherings are still not permitted under the governors order.

Reporting in glenn county kristian lopez action news now.

The county is urging people to follow state guidelines and is requesting a state testing site.

We have a list of places where you can get tested in glenn county on our website action news now dot com just click on this story here's our map

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