(Information from the Genesee/Orleans County Health Department)
Genesee County has confirmed 1 case of COVID-19 in a person over the age of 65 as of 3:00p.m. on March 17, 2020.
Contact tracing has begun at the Genesee County Health Department.
Individuals who were exposed, within 6 feet, to the infected person will be contacted and quarantined for 14 days since last exposure.
The known positive case had no known travel to high risk areas.
Genesee County currently has 11 people that are under precautionary quarantine, 2 people are under mandatory quarantine and 1 person(the positive case) is under mandatory isolation.
In Orleans County, 0 people are under precautionary quarantine, 5 people are under mandatory quarantine and 0 people are under mandatory isolation.
Mandatory isolation separates sick people with a communicable disease from people who are not sick.
Quarantine separates and restricts the movement of well people who MAY HAVE BEEN exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.
A 14 day precautionary quarantine is for people who have returned home from traveling to a level 3 country per the CDC.
COVID-19 swabbing/testing at the Health Department is limited at this time and Primary care providers and some health systems are offering testing in both Monroe and Erie Counties.