{"id":138539,"date":"2020-12-23T16:53:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=138539"},"modified":"2020-12-23T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:53:42","slug":"county-reports-103-new-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/12\/23\/county-reports-103-new-covid-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"County reports 103 new COVID cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Wednesday, the Van Wert County General Health District reports an increase of 103 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since Thursday, December 17, for a total of 1,546 confirmed cases.&nbsp;There are currently five people hospitalized.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials say they appreciate the efforts of the community to help them lower the spread of COVID-19.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have seen a recent decline in case numbers and hospitalizations, and we are hopeful the decline will continue,\u201d said County Environmental Health Director Britt Menchhofer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Health District office will be closed Thursday, December 24, and Friday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.&nbsp;Staff members responsible for COVID-19 follow-up will not be working Christmas Day, but will be contacting cases and providing information all other days of the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first phase of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution began Wednesday morning&nbsp;<em>(see article below)<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County General Health District will continue to provide information on vaccination as it becomes available.&nbsp;Health District employees are researching other means for providing information to the general public when the vaccine is available.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Covid-19-Update-December-23-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-138540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Covid-19-Update-December-23-2020.jpg 580w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Covid-19-Update-December-23-2020-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Covid-19-Update-December-23-2020-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information As of Wednesday, the Van Wert County General Health District reports an increase of 103 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since Thursday, December 17, for a total of 1,546 confirmed cases.&nbsp;There are currently five people hospitalized.&nbsp;&nbsp; Health officials say they appreciate the efforts of the community to help them lower the spread of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 13:13:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}