{"id":49602,"date":"2020-12-31T03:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T03:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/no-new-outbreaks-for-montezuma-dolores-counties\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:47:41","slug":"no-new-outbreaks-for-montezuma-dolores-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/no-new-outbreaks-for-montezuma-dolores-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"No new outbreaks for Montezuma, Dolores counties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f29d3f33-8541-4129-a35d-f79e86e52cc5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1353\" alt=\"Vials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are prepped to be loaded into syringes during a vaccination clinic for health care workers at Southwest Memorial Hospital recently.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Vials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are prepped to be loaded into syringes during a vaccination clinic for health care workers at Southwest Memorial Hospital recently.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>There were no new coronavirus outbreaks reported this week for  Montezuma and Dolores counties, according to the Colorado Department of Health and Environment.<\/p>\n<p>And two businesses \u2014 Alpacka Rafts of Mancos and Dunton Resort in Dolores County \u2014 were deemed outbreak-free Dec. 7 and Dec. 21, respectively, because their situations have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are 19 active outbreaks in Montezuma County and one in Dolores County, according to CDPHE.<\/p>\n<p>As of Dec. 30 Montezuma County has had 1,210 confirmed positive cases since the pandemic began in March, up from 1,140 cases Dec. 21, a 6% increase. There are 734 active cases and 460 have recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The increasing rate has diminished somewhat. Between Dec. 14 and Dec. 21, positive cases went from 998 to 1,140, a 14% increase.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven deaths have been attributed to COVID-19 in Montezuma County. Five others have died with COVID-19, but it was not the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>As of Dec. 29, Dolores County had 50 confirmed cases since March, and three active cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>businesses resolve outbreaks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,21,13,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49602","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=49602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87608,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49602\/revisions\/87608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49602"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}