10 TH Winston Response

City, county, and hospital leaders form Pandemic Team

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Vo there's another positive case of the coronavirus in our viewing area.... this time it's in winston county.... emergency management leaders are tackling this issue head on and have come up with a plan to respond..

Quentin smith was in winston county and joins us live in the studio with more... scott... it didn't take long for word to spread in winston county that someone tested positive been for the coronavirus..

While we don't know the person's name, we do know that they're in non- critical condition and at home recovering.

In the wake of this positive case... city leaders.... county leaders... and the winston medical center have all come together to form a pandemic team.

They activated a plan where everyday.... leaders from each entity will have a teleconference call to help them track and stay up- dated on what's going on surrounding covid- 19.... as well as looking at what can be done to help prevent it from spreading.

Ema director buddy king says... a critical element in the plan includes residents isolating themselves and practicing social distancing if possible.

King says this is their way of staying proactive and trying to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.

"that's the thing we would like to relay right now, this is the very early going out this outbreak.

The thing that we can do is treat everyone as if they are a potential exposure, that is the whole point of the isolation is for us to treat everyone has potential exposure.

That's why we want people to stay at home and limit their outings, because at this point everyone you coming contact with is a potential exposure."

" the isolation that people need and quarantine people need is very important, that's one of the main things."

Also happening in winston county, the hospital is having a medical drive for patients registered at its four clinics in the area..

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