{"id":89807,"date":"2020-03-26T19:22:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T01:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/health-department-reports-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-in-archuleta-county\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T19:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T01:22:04","slug":"health-department-reports-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-in-archuleta-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/health-department-reports-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-in-archuleta-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Health department reports first confirmed COVID-19 case in Archuleta County"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0d634c8a-01c2-4427-a056-951e424763df&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1540\" height=\"1027\" alt=\"San Juan Basin Public Health reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Archuleta County on Thursday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">San Juan Basin Public Health reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Archuleta County on Thursday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The test result came from an adult resident of the county. The health department declined to release further details about the individual.<\/p>\n<p>In line with best practices, health officials are identifying people who have been in contact with the individual  during the onset of the infectious period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll known contacts are identified and informed of their contact status, and the importance of receiving early care if they develop symptoms,\u201d according to a news release issued Thursday afternoon by SJBPH.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals who are believed to have had contact with the infected person will be contacted directly by SJBPH staff.<\/p>\n<p>People who have had contact with the individual will be provided with information about prevention of the disease. In some cases, quarantine or isolation is required for high-risk contacts, either at home or in a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSan Juan Basin Public Health expected that Archuleta County would see positive cases, and we imagine we will see more cases in the days to come,\u201d said SJBPH Executive Director Liane Jollon. \u201cAll residents of Archuleta County are urged to make responsible choices to protect our community and stay at home, according the governor\u2019s recent orders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County had four confirmed cases as of midday Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Basin Public Health reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Archuleta County on Thursday.Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file The test result came from an adult resident of the county. The health department declined to release further details about the individual. In line with best practices, health officials are identifying people who have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[493,685,13,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-89807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-archuleta-county","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89807","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=89807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89807"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=89807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}