{"id":49462,"date":"2021-01-07T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T04:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/five-new-coronavirus-outbreaks-reported-for-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:47:29","slug":"five-new-coronavirus-outbreaks-reported-for-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/five-new-coronavirus-outbreaks-reported-for-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Five new coronavirus outbreaks reported for Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7ee88e98-c448-4ffd-818d-3c4edd86745a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1128\" alt=\"This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January 2020 shows the 2019 novel coronavirus.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January 2020 shows the 2019 novel coronavirus.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Montezuma County has reported five new active COVID-19 outbreaks, bringing its total active cases to 23, according to the Colorado Department of Health and Environment.<\/p>\n<p>The county has had a total of 24 outbreaks. One has been resolved and is off the active list.<\/p>\n<p>CDPHE defines an \u201coutbreak\u201d of COVID-19 as two or more people who contract the virus in a single location within 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>The dates illnesses were determined to be an outbreak and locations are:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Jan. 4, City Market No. 408 in Cortez: Two staff have tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Jan. 4, Hampton Inn Mesa Verde in Cortez: Two staff have tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Jan. 4, Taylor Plumbing and Heating in Cortez: Two staff have tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Dec. 22, Souder, Miller &amp; Associates in Cortez: Three staff have tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Dec. 20, Garcia &amp; Co. Jewelers in Cortez: Two staff have tested positive.<\/em>As of Jan. 4, Montezuma County reported a total of 1,292 positive cases of COVID-19, up from 1,191 cases on Dec. 28, an 8% increase. There are currently 813 active cases. Eleven deaths have been attributed to COVID-19,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grocery store, retailer and hotel report staff infections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,21,13,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87588,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49462\/revisions\/87588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49462"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}