COLUMBUS — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine addressed the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic this afternoon, the first of two news conferences anticipated this week.
The following announcements were made:
- Mercer County is at the second spot for highest occurrence of coronavirus and Shelby County is now at the sixth position. No other Miami Valley counties are in the top 10 counties.
- The state’s coronavirus waste water monitoring system, which tracks gene fragments of the virus, is being expanded by 25 new sites in the next month. It currently is being used at 36 sites across the state, including Dayton, Mercer County and Springfield.
- DeWine said the state doesn’t have any announcements yet on how the donation of new rapid, low-cost test developed by Abbott Laboratories will be distributed around the state. The state is working on a plan however, DeWine said.
Other things to know Tuesday:
- A pop-up testing site will be in operation in Springfield Tuesday evening at the Rocking Horse Community Health Center, 651 South Limestone Street, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- Centerville City Schools are preparing a plan for students to return to classrooms by mid-October
- Dayton Public Schools are also nearing a return of students to the classrooms through a phased approach
- A teacher at Tri-County North Elementary tested positive for COVID-19. Five students who came in “close contact” have been quarantined
- Two staff members at Trotwood-Madison schools also have tested positive, according to the district superintendent
- The U.S. is “not in a good place” for containment of COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, warned Monday.
- The global death toll caused by the virus topped 1 million
- The WGI World Championships, held in Dayton in the spring, will not be hosted at the UD Arena and will instead be held virtually
LATEST STATE DATA:
As of Tuesday afternoon, there have been at least 152,907 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 4,783 deaths, and 15,413 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health. 131,708 people are presumed to have recovered from the virus in the state.
>>Local cases, deaths, presumed recoveries reported to the Ohio Department of Health
Ohio has an estimated population of approximately 11.7 million, census records show.
There have been 3,132,735 people tested for the coronavirus in Ohio, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
A total of 16,303 health care workers have tested positive which is about 11 percent of the cases.
Cox Media Group
