{"id":65169,"date":"2020-03-24T20:13:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T02:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-issues-stay-at-home-advisory-in-response-to-covid-19-health-crisis\/"},"modified":"2020-03-25T02:13:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T02:13:29","slug":"durango-issues-stay-at-home-advisory-in-response-to-covid-19-health-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-issues-stay-at-home-advisory-in-response-to-covid-19-health-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango issues stay-at-home advisory in response to COVID-19 health crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2a34a62b-8bab-4ab2-91d8-7c13455b2c24&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" alt=\"The Gaslight Twin Cinema in Durango was closed Tuesday in accordance with the governor\u2019s closure of movie theaters across the state. The city of Durango and San Juan Basin Public Health have issued stay-at-home advisories in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Gaslight Twin Cinema in Durango was closed Tuesday in accordance with the governor\u2019s closure of movie theaters across the state. The city of Durango and San Juan Basin Public Health have issued stay-at-home advisories in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The city of Durango issued a stay-at-home advisory Tuesday in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County has reported one case of COVID-19, in part because of limited testing, but health officials have advised the community to act as though the novel coronavirus is actively spreading in the region. Durango adopted the advisory recently issued by San Juan Basin Public Health to limit the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision was not made lightly, but we need to do everything we can to keep our community safe during this public health emergency,\u201d said Amber Blake, interim city manager, in a news release. \u201cThe city of Durango is hopeful that the governor of Colorado will issue a stay-at-home order so the entire state will have the same requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Health officials believe the best way to control the virus is to limit activity in non-essential businesses and to require people to confine themselves at home, according to the city\u2019s advisory.<\/p>\n<p>During the stay-at-home advisory, people should confine themselves to their homes, limit non-essential activities and prevent, or at least minimize, social contact, according to SJBPH.<\/p>\n<p>Because it is an advisory, the public\u2019s compliance is voluntary. The measure will remain in place until further notice, Blake said Tuesday in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory is \u201ccritical\u201d to encourage compliance with mitigation measures and to ensure people have a uniform understanding of what they should and should not be doing, she said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The measures are particularly important to people who fall into high-risk categories, including those with other health risks, like chronic diseases or diabetes, and older adults. Most of Colorado\u2019s COVID-19 cases, which totaled 912 on Tuesday, came from adults ages 40 to 49, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:smullane@durangoherald.com\">smullane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to see an order from state of Colorado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,1020,507,1152,28,29,668],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-durango-city-council","tag-durango-city-officials","tag-emergency-incident","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\/65169","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=65169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65169"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}