RALEIGH Starting today, North Carolina Food and Nutrition Services participants will be able to purchase groceries online using their Electronic Benefit Transfer cards at an additional authorized online EBT retailer, ALDI. This flexibility will allow participants to buy food while promoting social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and will help families with transportation and mobility barriers.
ALDI becomes the fourth North Carolina EBT retailer, along with Walmart, Amazon and Carlie C s, to be approved for online FNS purchases. In May 2020, North Carolina was one of the first 10 states to implement online purchasing for FNS, which will remain permanently in place beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
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New virus outbreak reported in Sylva
A total of 37 people at Morningstar Assisted Living in Sylva have tested positive for COVID-19, making the facility the fourth in Jackson County currently experiencing an outbreak.
The Jackson County Department of Public Health announced the outbreak this morning, with 11 employee and 26 residents testing positive at that time.
On Dec. 7, the health department announced an outbreak at Vero Health and Rehab of Sylva after six residents tested positive. There are also ongoing outbreaks at Skyland Care Center and Hermitage Assisted Living and Memory Care. To date, no deaths have been reported as a result of these outbreaks, however.