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Governor's Friday presser expected to touch on "re-opening", Fulton Co. to assess situation

Many are anxious to hear what the governor unveils at his Friday press conference related to the “opening” of Indiana from the Stay-at-Home executive order.

 

Fulton County Health Nurse Rhonda Barnett says what exactly that means for the state, and for Fulton County, remains to be seen.

 

 

Barnett says she doesn’t anticipate a rapid or sudden change in the process at this point.

 

She notes the Logansport Tyson impact on the area with hundreds of confirmed COVID cases is an example of why they continue to work with area business and industry.

 

 

The Cass County Health Department said it has seen just under 1,200 positive COVID-19 cases. Almost 900 employees at the Tyson Food plant in Cass County’s Logansport have tested positive.

 

The county had been working with Tyson on a plan to reopen the plant after the pork processing plant voluntarily closed for 14 days in an effort to contain an outbreak.

 

Cass County Commissioner Ryan Browning has been working with Tyson and the health department to develop a workable reopening plan that has been thrown into high gear by President Donald Trump’s executive order to reopen meat processing plants shuttered by the virus.

 

 

Serenity Alter is the Cass County Health Department administrator and she is expecting the numbers of positive cases to continue to climb.

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