****FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE****
June 24, 2020
Cattaraugus County Health Department was notified of its ninety-first confirmed case of COVID-19. The reporting laboratory was Boston Heart Diagnostics, Framingham, MA. The department's active positive COVID-19 caseload is now five, as there are now eighty-two residents who have recovered from COVID-19.
The latest case is a young girl who resides in the southeast quadrant of the county, who has no significant travel history. She is a direct contact of a positive COVID-19 person and her parent reports that she is asymptomatic (no fever, no cough, no body aches, etc.). She was tested for COVID-19 on June 21st and her test results on June 24th indicated that she was positive for the virus.
The department has begun a thorough contact tracing investigation for those individuals that they have been in contact with and the places that they have visited.
We continue to ask our residents to hunker down, and avoid any non-essential travel, especially to areas where there is community wide spread of COVID-19 otherwise, you place your family and other Cattaraugus County residents at risk. If travel is necessary, please wear a homemade cloth face mask while in public and maintain social distancing, at least 6 feet away from other people.
We would like to reiterate that if any resident experience fever, cough, shortness of breath or whole body aches they should contact their health care provider (avoid going directly to an Urgent Care facility, or the Emergency Room before calling).
Finally, in an effort to determine the prevalence of the virus in our community, any resident interested in getting a swab test can register for a test or call 716-938-9119 or 716-938-2265
For continued updates visit us at CattCo.org/Coronavirus.
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