As the Covid-19 infection progresses, health officials continue to worry that smoking from a wildfire in the Pacific Northwest could affect the recovery of people infected with the virus. Getting out of the fire while fighting coronavirus also comes with its own set of concerns.
“The first priority in a wildfire situation is to respond to evacuation and safety notices from local and state fire officials and to heed their warnings. Regardless of the state of the disease, if you are asked to be ordered out, you should do so, ”the Oregon Health Authority said in a press release Thursday.
The agency also asked people to evacuate to take precautions:
- If you have time, contact your local public health officer who should be in touch with you about your isolation or quarantine. They may have solutions to help you stay apart if you must evacuate.
- If you are directed to a shelter or other migration site, tell the authorities that you are in solitary confinement or quarantine so they can take steps to keep you away from other migrants.
- Always wear a mask when you are out of the house, or if you come in contact with people who do not live with you.
- If you are an elderly or disabled person, contact the Aging and Disability Resource Connection at 1-855-673-2372 for information on resources.
- Practice physical distance as much as possible, if you must travel for any reason, including getting out of the house.
Some people need extra action to get the extra COVID-EUR unemployment benefit
Reg Regionians working in hopes of getting an additional to 300 on their weekly unemployment benefits may need to take an extra stop to start receiving that funding.
In order for people to find unemployment through the state’s epidemic unemployment assistance program, the additional payment authorized by President Donald Trump’s executive order should automatically appear.
But those who receive regular benefits or pay an extra 13 weeks under the epidemic emergency unemployment compensation program need to go online to check if they have lost their job due to the epidemic.
The state has a federal fund worth six weeks. People are eligible if they have received unemployment benefits between July 26 and September. Payments are expected to begin later this month.
Umatila County allowed COVID-19 restrictions to be eased
Umatila County is allowed to immediately and effectively ease some coronavirus restrictions, the Eastern Oregonian reported Friday.
That’s a change from last week, when the government’s Kate Brown and Reg Reagan Health Authority rejected the county’s application for admission to Phase 2 of the reopening. At the time, they said the county had more than 100 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents and did not meet other state criteria for easing restrictions.
The death toll from Reg Regan’s coronavirus is close to 500
The Reg Reagan Health Authority reported two more deaths in COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the number of confirmed epidemic deaths in the state to 497.
They were dead:
- A 64-year-old Jefferson County man who tested positive on Aug. 5 and at the band’s St. Charles Medical Center on Sept. 10.
- A 91-year-old man from Multnomah County who tested positive on Aug. 24 and died Sept. 1 at Adventist Medical Center in Portland.
Both had underlying medical conditions.
There were also 215 new diagnoses of coronavirus in the state on Friday, bringing to 28,865 known confirmed and considered cases in the state since the onset of the epidemic.
New diagnoses in Reagan have dropped straight to five weeks
New coronavirus diagnoses are down 5% from a week earlier, the Oregon Health Authority said in its weekly COVID-19 report released Thursday.
The report looks at the week from Monday, August 1 to Sunday, September 6, when health officials reported 1,477 new cases of COVD-19 infection. In mid-July it is more than 30% of the weekly total. This represents a weekly decline in five consecutive.
The death toll also dropped to 23 from 39 in the previous week. The percentage of positive tests also dropped slightly from 4.4% to 3.3%.
People in their 20s are more likely to contract Covid-19, while people over the age of 80 account for about half of Oregon’s deaths from the virus.
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