S7HD announces orange level warning in northern counties âIt really is frightening that the stateâs county by county risk level metric map is beginning to mimic the COVID-19 infection map that we saw at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020,â said Nathan Ryder, Outreach Coordinator for Southern Seven Health Department. (Source: Southern Seven Health Department) By Clayton Hester | April 23, 2021 at 2:54 PM CDT - Updated April 23 at 2:55 PM
Ullin, Ill. (KFVS) - The Southern Seven Health Department is reporting that counties to the north are moving to Orange Warning Levels.
âIt really is frightening that the stateâs county by county risk level metric map is beginning to mimic the COVID-19 infection map that we saw at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020,â said Nathan Ryder, Outreach Coordinator for Southern Seven Health Department.
(WSIL) Southern Seven Health Department (S7HD) reports the Illinois Department of Public Health announced on April 23rd that while Southern Seven counties continue to have stabilized COVID-19 risks, increasingly more counties to our north are moving to Orange Warning Levels on the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) risk metrics.
“It really is frightening that the state’s county by county risk level metric map is beginning to mimic the COVID-19 infection map that we saw at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020,” said Nathan Ryder, Outreach Coordinator for Southern Seven Health Department. “We saw a few counties in the northern end of the state go to Orange Warning Levels because of their increasing COVID-19 case counts and we’re beginning to see a wave of higher infection rates move further and further down the state.”
Fri, 04/16/2021 - 1:10pm admin
In honor of all lives affected by the pandemic, the Southern Seven Health Department is coordinating a region-wide COVID-19 Remembrance Day ceremony on May 4 at 2 p.m.
May 4 marks the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 death reported by the Southern Seven Health Department. The individual was from Union County.
At that time, 64 positive cases of COVID-19 had been reported in the region. The first case was reported in Massac County on April 1. As of April 14 of this year, 6,686 individuals have tested positive for COVID-19. Of those, one hundred have succumbed to the disease.
“Every life is important,” said Rhonda Andrews-Ray, Executive Director for the Southern Seven Health Department. “This special event will honor those that we love and have fallen due to COVID-19.”
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Healthcare institutions in the region have begun receiving the first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, Dec. 16.
Southern Seven Health Department has received a shipment of 160 doses of the vaccine, which was transported to a local healthcare provider.
Frontline healthcare workers at that facility are expected to receive their first COVID-19 vaccinations beginning today. Frontline healthcare workers are considered to be paid or unpaid employees who serve in healthcare settings and have the potential for direct or indirect exposure to patients or infectious materials.
“The arrival of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is an important step in the fight against this pandemic in the Southern Seven region,” said Teresa Wilburn, Director of Nursing for Southern Seven Health Department. “I’m proud to have been a small part of the process in the delivery to one of our hardest hit count