****FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE****
June 11, 2020
Cattaraugus County Health Department was notified of two additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 residents within Cattaraugus County. The department's active positive COVID-19 caseload is now ten, as there are now sixty-six residents who have recovered from COVID-19.
The seventy-ninth confirmed case is a female resident who resides in the southeast quadrant of the county, who has no significant travel history but who reports attending a "March for Justice" rally in Olean on Tuesday, June 2nd. She reports being asymptomatic (no fever, no cough, no body aches, etc.) and denies any known contacts with a positive COVID-19 person. She was tested for COVID-19 on June 9th as part of a push to get participants to get tested and her test results on June 10th indicated that she was positive for the virus.
The eightieth confirmed case is a female resident who resides in the southeast quadrant of the county, who has no significant travel history who, developed fever and what she thought was a sinus infection. She was tested for COVID-19 on JUne 8th because she was symptomatic, and on June 10th, her test results 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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