Cave Spring Elementary School Principal Dr. Kyle Abernathy went on Facebook to give an update on his and his wife’s, April condition. Since the below post, April has been told that she has to be transported to Emory Hospital in Atlanta.
Governor Kemp, Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.P.H., Georgia Department of Public Health(DPH) commissioner, and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) announced that a quarantine space for persons identified by DPH who are unable to self-quarantine at home is under construction on the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC) campus in Monroe County. The announcement was made Friday.
While the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) has no known cases of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) at this time, GDC is closely monitoring the ongoing developments of COVID-19 here in Georgia, and is taking proactive steps to help ensure the health and safety of staff, offenders and visitors.
Georgia became the second state in the nation to postpone the Presidential Preference Primary. The election was scheduled for March 24, 2020 and early voting was already underway. Voters in Georgia will now be able to vote in the Presidential Preference Primary at the same time they vote in the local General Election Primary in May. The Chattooga County Registrar Office released the following information on Saturday night:
While kids are out of school for the next two weeks, Chattooga students will take part in “Digital Learning Days”. Assignments will be posted online to the Chattooga County Schools Google Classroom. You can find all the details below:
Alabama now has six confirmed cases of coronavirus. The first case was reported in Montgomery County. The second is a person in Jefferson County.
Friday night, the Alabama Department of Health updated its website to say there are now six confirmed cases in the state. Five of the cases are from in-state and one other is from out of town. The locations are:
- Elmore County – 1 case
- Jefferson County – 1 case
- Limestone County – 1 case
- Montgomery County – 1 case
- Tuscaloosa County – 1 case
- Out of Town – 1 case
Both Trion and Chattooga School Systems are closed for the next two weeks. With children being out of school, the school system’s nutrition departments are working to provide free meals for families across the county. You can see the details below:
Northwest Georgia medical and public health leaders are working closely and collaboratively to aggressively respond to the COVID-19 impact in our communities. In reviewing the increased number and nature of COVID-19 cases in Bartow, Floyd, Gordon, and Polk county residents, we believe there is now clear indication of community spread. As leaders of local health and hospital systems across Northwest Georgia, we unanimously endorse the difficult yet necessary decision to cancel events and large gatherings and encourage the use of social distancing to mitigate spread of the virus and best protect our communities. See the letter released yesterday below:
Georgia’s Chief Justice Harold D. Melton declared a statewide judicial emergency, effective immediately, in Georgia on Saturday.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Sunday, March 15, 2020: