****For Immediate
Release****
July 9, 2020
Cattaraugus County Health Department was notified of three
additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 residents within Cattaraugus County. The
department’s active positive COVID-19 caseload is now eight as there are
ninety-one residents who have recovered from COVID-19.
The one hundredth and first confirmed case is a female
resident who resides in the southwest quadrant of the county, who is a
healthcare worker at a nursing home in Cattaraugus County. She denies any significant
travel history and reports being asymptomatic (no cough, no fever, no body
aches, etc.). She was tested for COVID-19 on July 6th as part of a recent
requirement of all nursing home employees to be tested weekly and her test
results on July 8th indicated that she was positive for the virus.
The one hundredth and second confirmed case is a female
resident who resides in the southeast quadrant of the county, who is a
healthcare worker at a nursing home in Cattaraugus County. She denies any significant
travel history and reports being asymptomatic (no cough, no fever, no body
aches, etc.). She was tested for COVID-19 on July 6th as part of a recent
requirement of all nursing home employees to be tested weekly and her test
results on July 8th indicated that she was positive for the virus. The one
hundredth and third confirmed case is a female resident who resides in the
southwest quadrant of the county, who is a healthcare worker at a nursing home
in Cattaraugus County. She denies any significant travel history and reports
being asymptomatic (no cough, no fever, no body aches, etc.). She was tested
for COVID-19 on July 6th as part of a recent requirement of all nursing home
employees to be tested weekly and her test results on July 8th indicated that
she was positive for the virus.
The department has begun a thorough contact tracing
investigation for those individuals that they have been in contact with, and
the places that they have visited.
We would like to reiterate that if any resident experience
fever, cough, shortness of breath or whole body aches they should contact their
health care provider (avoid going directly to an Urgent Care facility, or the Emergency
Room before calling).
Finally, in an effort to determine the prevalence of
COVID-19 in our community, any resident interested in getting tested, can
register for a test at www.cattco.org/covid-19-test or call 716-938-9119 or 716-938-2265.