St. Joseph Health Department COVID 19 Cases (4-9-20)

St. Joseph Health Department COVID 19 Cases (4-9-20)

Coronavirus cases continuing to grow locally, st.

Joseph health department staff are urging everyone to do their part to combat the spread of the virus.

Here's kq2's ron johnson.

<<ron johnson reproting with covid-19 cases on the rise in buchanan county, health department staff have this simple messageeveryone has to do their part they stress the importance of everyone getting on the same page when it comes to stopping the spread of the virusthe only way we make it through this is with the cooperation of every single person.

Individual people's decision will determine what impact it has on our community.

Even with our social distancing rules health department staff still expect numbers to rise even more, they caution people not to get too caught up in the numbers the thing to just happens to be the amount of people who had symptoms and qualified for testing and had a positive test, it doesn't list the number of people in our community who either aren't having symptoms, aren't having symptoms consistent with getting a test, or haven't been approved for testing.

Because cases are continuing to climb, local health officials what's being said at the national all have to work with the virus' schedule.

The virus doesn't care that it's easter weekend, it doesn't care what state it is, what city it is, what country it is, this virus spreads person to person through close contact.

And take every precaution at ourselves healthy it is in our community, it could be anyone.

Ron johnson kq2 news>> health department staff say the our local cases match the state's demographics, they include every age group.

They also say they include people who've travelled outside of the county and