{"id":141000,"date":"2021-03-11T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T23:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=141000"},"modified":"2021-03-11T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T23:02:48","slug":"health-district-reports-4-new-covid-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/03\/11\/health-district-reports-4-new-covid-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Dept. reports 4 new COVID deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Thursday, the Van Wert County General Health District reports four additional deaths of county residents who tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths for county residents to 53.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health department waits to confirm a COVID-19 death until it is able to receive the death certificate.&nbsp;If the death occurs in another county or state, it can be a considerable amount of time prior to receiving the certificate, thus causing a lag in reporting time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase this week was a result of tracking down a few outstanding cases to confirm the cause of death on the certificate.&nbsp;The age ranges of the deceased are ages 90-99, one; ages 70-79, one; age 60-69, two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health department reports an increase of 13 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since Thursday, March 5, for a total of 2,259 confirmed cases.&nbsp;Van Wert County was also downgraded to a Level 2 (orange) on the Public Health Advisory System, and there are no known hospitalizations at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date, the health department has given 6,614 COVID-19 vaccinations.&nbsp; Media and news outlets will have announcements regarding future vaccination clinics.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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\/2021\/03\/Covid-19-Update-March-11-2021-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Covid-19-Update-March-11-2021-1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Covid-19-Update-March-11-2021-1-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Covid-19-Update-March-11-2021-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information As of Thursday, the Van Wert County General Health District reports four additional deaths of county residents who tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths for county residents to 53.&nbsp; The health department waits to confirm a COVID-19 death until it is able to receive the death certificate.&nbsp;If the [&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-141000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 04:00:44","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\/141000","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=141000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}