Meigs Health Matters… The importance of handwashing
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Keeping hands clean is especially important to help prevent COVID-19 and other viruses from spreading. Handwashing is one of the best ways to keep you and your family from getting sick. Germs can spread from other people or surfaces when you touch your eyes, nose, or mouth with your hands. Transmissions can occur when you prepare food or drinks with unwashed hands. And also, when you sneeze, cough, or blow your nose and then touch common objects.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends washing your hands for 20 seconds with soap and water or using a hand sanitizer of at least 60% alcohol to avoid the transmission of germs. Critical times for handwashing are before and after:
Meigs Health Matters… The importance of handwashing
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Keeping hands clean is especially important to help prevent COVID-19 and other viruses from spreading. Handwashing is one of the best ways to keep you and your family from getting sick. Germs can spread from other people or surfaces when you touch your eyes, nose, or mouth with your hands. Transmissions can occur when you prepare food or drinks with unwashed hands. And also, when you sneeze, cough, or blow your nose and then touch common objects.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends washing your hands for 20 seconds with soap and water or using a hand sanitizer of at least 60% alcohol to avoid the transmission of germs. Critical times for handwashing are before and after:
One additional COVID-19 death reported in Gallia… Latest case data in Gallia, Mason, Meigs
Staff Report
OHIO VALLEY The Ohio Department of Health reported one additional COVID-19 death in Gallia County on Friday, a person in the 50-59 age range.
In addition, three new COVID-19 cases were reported in Gallia County.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reported one additional case of COVID-19 in Mason County on Friday.
Four additional COVID-19 cases were reported by the Meigs County Health Department on Friday.
Here is a closer look at COVID-19 cases in the region:
Gallia County
ODH reported a total of 2,353 cases of COVID-19 (since March 2020) in Gallia County as part of Friday’s update, three more than on Thursday.
Gallia returns to orange, joining Meigs… Latest case data in Gallia, Mason, Meigs
Staff Report
OHIO VALLEY Gallia County returned to the “orange” level two advisory, joining Meigs County, on the Ohio Public Health Advisory System on Thursday.
Gallia County reported a total of 15 cases over the past two week, a total of 50.17 cases per 100,000 population for that time span. Gallia County met two of the seven indicators, the one for new cases per capita and the one for non-congregate cases.
Meigs County reported a total of 20 cases over the past two weeks, a total of 87.31 cases per 100,000 population for that time frame. Meigs County met the same two indicators as Gallia County.