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Ohio Removed From COVID-19 Travel Advisory

Ohio Department of Health

State health officials Wednesday reported more than six thousand new cases of COVID-19 and 73 new deaths. Ohio now has 842,443 cases and 10,409 deaths.<--break->State health officials also removed Ohio from their COVID-19 travel advisory. Idaho, Utah, South Dakota, Iowa, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee are on the list. All have positive test rates of 15 percent or higher. Travelers are advised to quarantine for two weeks. Removed from the list are Nevada, South Carolina, Arizona, and Missouri. Oregon, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Maine, and Connecticut are considered potential risk areas due to incomplete data.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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