{"id":21799,"date":"2020-03-10T10:49:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=63647"},"modified":"2020-03-10T10:49:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:49:52","slug":"colorado-gov-jared-polis-declares-state-of-emergency-over-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/colorado-gov-jared-polis-declares-state-of-emergency-over-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Gov. Jared Polis declares state of emergency over coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"707\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/jared-polis-coronavirus-press-conference.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/jared-polis-coronavirus-press-conference.jpg 707w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/jared-polis-coronavirus-press-conference-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\"><figcaption><strong>DENVER, CO &#8211; MARCH 10: Gov. Jared Polis speaks during a press conference in the Governor&#8217;s office at the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday morning, March 10, 2020. <\/strong><br \/><em>Photo by Hyoung Chang\/The Denver Post<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Gov. Jared Polis declared a state of emergency Tuesday as Colorado gears up to fight the growing outbreak in this country of the new coronavirus that already has caused havoc around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also announced three new cases in Colorado, in Eagle, Arapahoe and Gunnison counties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fully anticipate in the coming days\u2026 that there will be more cases,\u201d Polis said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to get through this together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polis said health officials are working to expand the state\u2019s testing capacity. The state has 900 test kits for the coronavirus, but Polis said he asked Vice President Mike Pence for more testing kits on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need more testing because the sooner we can identify positive cases and hotspots\u2026 the more effectively we can isolate those who test positive and we can limit and slow the spread of the virus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/03\/10\/coronavirus-colorado-state-of-emergency\/#\"> DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/colorado-gov-jared-polis-declares-state-of-emergency-over-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER, CO &#8211; MARCH 10: Gov. Jared Polis speaks during a press conference in the Governor&#8217;s office at the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday morning, March 10, 2020. Photo by Hyoung Chang\/The Denver Post Gov. Jared Polis declared a state of emergency Tuesday as Colorado gears up to fight the growing outbreak in this country of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 03:31:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}