{"id":88911,"date":"2020-04-29T02:03:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/state-mistakenly-reports-positive-case-in-silverton\/"},"modified":"2020-04-29T02:03:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:03:43","slug":"state-mistakenly-reports-positive-case-in-silverton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/state-mistakenly-reports-positive-case-in-silverton\/","title":{"rendered":"State mistakenly reports positive case in Silverton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=36d2704d-4ea9-46f8-ae6e-a6e8c29eb1ff&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1048\" alt=\"Silverton\u2019s public health order asks residents to stay put and for outsiders to stay away.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Silverton\u2019s public health order asks residents to stay put and for outsiders to stay away.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>State health officials mistakenly reported that San Juan County had its first positive case of the coronavirus over the weekend, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.<\/p>\n<p>On its Saturday update, the CDPHE listed one positive case in the small mountain community of about 600 residents, north of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County, which took immediate and strict measures during the pandemic, including closing the town to nonresidents, <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/322545-how-has-san-juan-county-remained-covidfree\">had remained one of eight Colorado counties without a positive case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, Ian Dickson, a spokesman for CDPHE, said Monday morning a data entry error led to the case being reported in San Juan County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should disappear from the list when we do the 4 p.m. update today (Monday),\u201d Dickson said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Gov. Jared Polis relaxing restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus, San Juan County\u2019s own public health order remains in effect until Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials in San Juan County said last week it\u2019s likely they will extend some form of a public health order beyond Thursday, which will likely hold to the locals-only policy in Silverton.<\/p>\n<p>Although there have been no reported positive cases, health officials in Silverton believe the virus is likely within the community.<\/p>\n<p>The seven other counties that have still not reported a positive case include Bent, Cheyenne, Conejos, Dolores, Jackson, Kiowa and Sedgwick.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesman says data entry error led to false report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,28,668,1562,327],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-88911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-headlines","tag-public-health","tag-san-juan-county-colorado","tag-silverton"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88911","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=88911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88911"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=88911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}