{"id":23064,"date":"2020-05-25T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T15:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=64780"},"modified":"2020-05-25T09:59:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T15:59:01","slug":"county-confirms-two-new-cases-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/county-confirms-two-new-cases-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"County confirms two new cases of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"31.067336683417\">\n<p>Two more cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Grand County in the last two days, according to Grand County Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, public health was informed of a sixth positive COVID-19 test for a resident of Grand County. A seventh case was confirmed with a test on Sunday, public health said.<\/p>\n<p>As with the other confirmed cases of COVID-19, public health officials are investigating the cases through contact tracing and contacting everyone with very close, prolonged contact with the infected person during the specific timeframe of exposure.<\/p>\n<p>According to public health, neither of the two new cases were part of the county\u2019s surveillance testing efforts at local businesses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row shn-donation shn-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Prior to these two cases, Grand County had seen a plateau in positive tests with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/grand-confirms-5th-covid-19-case\/\">five cases for almost a month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The county has completed 522 tests, with 451 coming back negative and 67 tests pending. 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