Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle and Doctor Karen Landers with the Department of Public Health talked about the growing number of coronavirus cases in Madison County.
New at six -- huntsville mayor tommy battle and doctor karen landers with the department of public health- talked about the growing number of cases here in madison county- and although people might be tired of the health order -- both said coronavirus is not going away anytime soon.
Waay 31's sydney martin has more.
Battle, "june 10th of this year we were looking at huntsville having 413 positive cases of covid-19.
Today, we're looking at 1,983.
Huntsville hospital and crestwood had 12 patients in there with covid 19.
Today we are looking at 112 patients in both huntsville and crestwood.
The quarantine number that you look at and those quarantine numbers are for you to look at and see how many people out there could possibly be infectious at this time and place was 81 on june 10th on july 10th it was 1,185."
Battle "our numbers are going up and they're up significantly.
That's why the mask ordinance or face covering ordinance went into place.
Tuesday at 5 o'clock.
Dr. karen landers, alabama department of public health, "everyone is tired of this.
Everyone wishes it would go away.
" "it has to be a group effort.
A team effort.
I would just urge that we continue to adopt that attitude to protect everyone in this pandemic."
Battle," we're looking at probably 12 to 14 days before we actually see ourselves see the results of what masking has done.
But in that 12-14 days i think that we can, we can again, hold onto our own destiny and make sure we are keeping the numbers get those numbers starting to move in the right direction."
Thanks sydney.
Battle said after they see what impact the face covering health order - that went into effect in madison county on tuesday - has on the community - they'll be able to determine if
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