Northampton County’s number of inmates with COVID-19 triples in 2 weeks
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Northampton County Prison officials on Tuesday reported the cumulative number of inmates who have tested positive for COVID-19 has tripled in two weeks.
The total number of inmates testing positive since March reached 86 as of Tuesday, up 207% from 28 on Dec. 1.
The number of inmates quarantining as of Tuesday was 31, or 5.8% of the total prison population of 537 inmates, the Northampton County Department of Corrections reported.
On the staff side, a cumulative 35 prison employees have tested positive for the coronavirus illness since March, up 40% from 25 on Dec. 1. Of those, six were still quarantining with 29 having finished their quarantine period.
COVID concerns: All York County buildings closed to public starting today
York Dispatch
York County will close all county buildings to the public beginning Dec. 21, and continuing through Jan. 8, in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 around the holidays, county officials announced Wednesday.
Offices will reopen to the public Jan. 11, officials said.
York County Commissioner Julie Wheeler said the closures are an anticipatory measure based on the spike in positive cases after the Thanksgiving holiday, which is why they won t go into effect immediately. We thought that in an abundance of caution, we should close the buildings to the public, she said.