Newton County Health Department offers incentive for vaccination
Newton County Health Department
Newton County and the surrounding area is seeing a large increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. Our area has received a COVID Hot Spot Advisory from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Because of this, we are asking residents that have not been vaccinated to please consider getting the COVID vaccination.
As an incentive, the Newton County Health Department is going to offer a $100 gift card to 30 Newton County residents who receive both doses of either Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. Ten gift cards will be given to individuals in the 12-17 age group, ten gift cards to individuals in the 18-25 age group, and ten gift cards to individuals in the age group of 26 and older.
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A surge is expected in coming weeks
July 8, 2021 5:02 pm
LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. (KLKN) – If you are planning a trip to the Lake of the Ozarks for a summer getaway, you might want to make alternate plans. The entire area is under a Hot Spot Advisory for COVID-19 cases on the rise.
Accordingly to a news release from the Missouri Department of Health, there has been a surge of cases of the Delta variant in Miller, Morgan, and Camden counties. Those all surround the popular lake getaway, Lake of the Ozarks.
The number in those counties could jump to three times higher than current numbers in the coming weeks if action isn’t taken to slow the spread, according to health officials in the Show Me State.