During a press conference on Friday, July 3rd, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced that the Ohio Department of Health has unveiled the state’s newest response tool to the Coronavirus, a county-by-county public alert system. The alert system is color-coded, and provides detailed information and analysis on each county’s spread of COVID-19. Counties will be ranked on one of four levels, with one being “active exposure and spread,” and four being “severe exposure and spread.”

The announcement comes as Ohio moves forward in this new phase of the state’s response to the virus, while continuing to see an increase in virus cases. Pop-up testing will continue across the state this week after the sixty-thousand case threshold was surpassed last week. Ohio now has more than three-thousand virus deaths. Mask-wearing is strongly urged.

Information on the state’s plan to slowly re-open the economy can be found online at ODH.Ohio.gov with specific details and statistics found online at Coronavirus.Ohio.gov.

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According to the Ashland County Health Department, the Ohio Department of Health’s Call Center can be reached at 1-833-4-ASK-ODH (1-833-427-5634). The ODH Call Center is staffed by nurses and infectious disease specialists 7 days a week from 9am until 8pm.

Data as of 07/12/20 (Photo courtesy of Ohio Department of Health/Coronavirus.Ohio.gov)