{"id":141356,"date":"2021-03-25T13:39:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=141356"},"modified":"2021-03-25T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:39:50","slug":"health-dept-reports-1-covid-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/03\/25\/health-dept-reports-1-covid-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Dept. reports 1 county COVID death"},"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 an additional death of a resident of Van Wert County who tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths for county residents to 54.&nbsp; Health officials expressed their deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the deceased.&nbsp;The age range of the deceased is between 60 and 69 years old.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health department reports an increase of eight confirmed cases of COVID-19 since Thursday, March 18, for a total of 2,274 confirmed cases.&nbsp;There are no known hospitalizations at this time.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date, the health department has given 8,317 COVID-19 vaccinations.&nbsp;The next walk-in vaccination clinic is Wednesday, March 31, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Lifehouse Church.&nbsp;Moderna vaccine will be available that day for all those age 18 and above.&nbsp;The health department is not making appointments at this time, as all clinics are walk-in only.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The public can also contact Family Healthcare of Northwest Ohio at 419.238.6747 and Van Wert Family Physicians at 419.238.6251 to schedule vaccination appointments.&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-25-2021.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Covid-19-Update-March-25-2021.png 580w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Covid-19-Update-March-25-2021-550x550.png 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Covid-19-Update-March-25-2021-150x150.png 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 an additional death of a resident of Van Wert County who tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths for county residents to 54.&nbsp; Health officials expressed their deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the deceased.&nbsp;The age [&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-141356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 22:21:14","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\/141356","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=141356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}