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December 10, 2020 5:34 PM Melissa Luck
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The Grant County Health District shared new numbers with 4 News Now Thursday evening.
The health district says it has linked 50 primary cases to the wedding. Those are people who attended the wedding and tested positive for COVID-19.
Of those primary cases, two people were staff members at Lake Ridge Center, a nursing home in Moses Lake. Since the wedding, there have been 65 COVID-19 cases at Lake Ridge; 15 residents have died.
The agency found potential links to healthcare workers as well, including one person who worked at Samaritan Hospital and one nursing student. Contact tracing also revealed 11 Moses Lake School District staff members attended the wedding and tested positive for COVID-19.
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