{"id":50339,"date":"2020-11-20T03:07:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T10:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/six-active-coronavirus-outbreaks-reported-in-montezuma-county\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:50:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:50:56","slug":"six-active-coronavirus-outbreaks-reported-in-montezuma-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/six-active-coronavirus-outbreaks-reported-in-montezuma-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Six active coronavirus outbreaks reported in Montezuma County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f50c893d-c9fa-44dc-bfef-cc44a7d3f8ec&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1439\" alt=\"Free COVID-19 testing was given in June at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Free COVID-19 testing was given in June at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Montezuma County has six active COVID-19 outbreaks, according to the Colorado Department of Health and Environment.<\/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\">Nov. 12, Evangel Assembly of God in Cortez: Five attendees have tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Nov. 12, CrossFit MRF\/Mountain Range in Cortez: Six attendees have tested postive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Nov. 4, Underwood Optical in Cortez: Three staff have tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Nov. 2, Curt Mangan Strings on County Road G: Three staff have tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Oct. 27, Loungin\u2019 Lizard in Cortez: Twelve staff have tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Oct. 27, Cortez Livestock Auction in Cortez: Two staff have tested positive.<\/em>As of Nov. 18, Montezuma County reported a total of 483 cases and four deaths because of COVID-19, up from 332 cases on Nov. 11, a 45% increase. There were 249 active cases and 228 recovered cases. Total negative tests have grown to 8,554.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>businesses and a church have two or more positive cases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,21,13,28,29,668],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-50339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50339","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=50339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87727,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50339\/revisions\/87727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50339"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=50339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}