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Sixteen States Now On Ohio's COVID-19 Travel Advisory

Ohio Department of Health

Four new states have been added to Ohio's COVID-19 travel advisory.Wyoming, New Mexico, Oregon, and Tennessee join Utah, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Montana, Alabama, South Dakota, Idaho, Iowa, Arizona, Missouri, and Kansas. All have positive test rates of 15 percent or higher. Officials urge travelers to and from those states to quarantine for two weeks. Washington had incomplete data is considered a potential risk.State Health officials paused daily COVID-19 updates in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The Ohio Department of Health says it will resume updating daily cases today with a combined report of Thursday and Friday's numbers. Since the start of the pandemic, Ohio has tallied over 380-thousand cases, 62-hundred deaths, and over 25-thousand hospitalizations.

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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