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Photo of Daily Journal File Richmond County reported 32 new COVID-19 cases this week, killing 25 people associated with the virus.

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Richmond County reported 32 new COVID-19 cases this week, killing 25 people associated with the virus.

ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County has the second highest number of new COVID-19 cases per day, with 32 reported on Friday. This is partly due to outbreaks in local nursing homes and an increase in cases in Morrison Collective, with more residents dying from the virus.

Hoffman’s zip code, including Morrison, added seven new cases on Friday, of which Tommy Jarrell, director of health, said “many are from prisons.” Morrison has a total of 54 positive cases and 12 active cases. The highest number of days was on September 21, with 36, 19 of which were Morrison. At that time, Morrison had a total of 29 cases and 25 active cases.

Jarrell confirmed that the outbreak occurred at the Hermitage Retirement Center, and there are currently a total of 14 cases. It is unknown how many of them are active. No deaths have been reported as of Friday.

Jarrell revealed that this big jump seen on Friday wasn’t all due to nursing homes and prisons. The incident was exposed. Richmond County reported its 25th COVID-19-related death on Thursday, following the 24th reported on Monday.

“It’s so widespread that it’s almost impossible to trace back to where they got it,” Jarrell said on Friday. “It’s getting very difficult. The take-away message may not only be that everyone really takes precautions, keeps social distance, protects themselves, but also doesn’t know they’ve been exposed. There is no such thing as protecting others.

“We really believe we’ve moved to that second wave,” he added, noting the slow rise in COVID-19 cases that experts predicted early in the pandemic.

There were a total of three cases in Pruitt Health-Rockingham, but Jarrell said this was not considered an outbreak, probably due to the time between each positive test. He explained that the care facility tests all residents every month, but increases the percentage of tests according to the number of positives.

Fortunately, Jarrell said the county would soon get some help in terms of testing. There is no official start date, but within the next few days or weeks, the public will not need to be referred by a doctor, will not have to show symptoms, and will have a “no” free test available. According to Jarrell, they demand that they be exposed to the virus.

“It may help reduce (the number of new cases), because people know they have been exposed, so you can certainly isolate yourself.” Jarrell said.

Contact Gavin Stone at 910-817-2673 or [email protected]

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