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BRIDGEPORT The Belmont County Health Department kept up the drive Friday to vaccinate area students before the summer months in keeping with Gov. Mike DeWine’s goal.
On Friday, health department staff were offering doses at Bridgeport High School. About 15 students were expected to receive their first dose of the Pfizer BioNTech version of the vaccine, which is cleared for recipients younger than 18. For the past two weeks, vaccination clinics have been set up in school districts and in Bellaire near Ohio 7.
“We started it at 1:30 p.m. and it’s going to go to 3:30 p.m. It is based on students who with parent permission and parent consent would like to get the vaccine,” Principal Tom Daley said. “We had a staff vaccination clinic back in February and March. About 90 of our staff members are now fully vaccinated. … It’s a good percentage of the staff.”
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE Belmont County ranks third in the state in COVID-19 occurrence rate, Gov. Mike DeWine announced Monday.
The governor shared data that indicate Belmont County has 220.9 cases per 100,000 residents, with 148 cases among its 67,006 residents. The data is collected over a two-week period, and it was current as of April 28. Of the Ohio’s 88 counties, only Lucas and Cuyahoga have higher occurrence rates, at 270.1 and 229.6 per 100,000, respectively.
The news came as the Belmont County Health Department said its COVID-19 vaccination outreach is moving to a new set of schools this week and providing doses to homebound residents in Bellaire. Following last week’s vaccination clinics in the St. Clairsville-Richland City and Shadyside Local school districts and at St. John Central Academy in Bellaire, Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul said there will be more school and apartment complex clinics this week, along with the normal weekly cl
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COLUMBUS More infectious and more deadly variants of the COVID-19 virus are expected to be ascendant in coming weeks, but vaccinations are also climbing.
DeWine said coronavirus cases are surging, with 2,742 new cases reported in Ohio in the last 24 hours and a 21-day reported case average of 1,801. There are 111 Ohioans newly hospitalized with the virus and a total of 1,193 infected people hospitalized across the state.
“We continue to see a significantly higher number in cases,” the governor said Thursday. “ICU admissions are up. Not dramatically.”
“We’re moving now in the wrong direction,” he said during his broadcast on the Ohio Channel.
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Belmont County Junior Fair Queen Megan Garrison of Belmont did her best to prevent the spread of COVID-19 precautions during a reduced Belmont County Junior Fair in September. Many events and festivals were halted last summer due to the coronavirus.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE It has been one year a year of seeing others in masks and through partitions, of staying away from friends and family, of constant hand washing and sanitizing, of disruptions to schooling, business and livelihoods, of isolation and loss since COVID-19 arrived in Belmont County.
On March 13, 2020, Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul confirmed that two residents had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.