LINCOLN – Each local health district continues to evaluate its progress in the fight against COVID-19. The Governor’s Office and Nebraska’s DHHS have started conversations with local health department districts about moving to Phase 4 Directed Health Measures.
Based on recent data trends, the Loup Basin Health Department jurisdiction believes it is prepared to move to Phase 4 DHMs as of Friday, July 24, 2020. Loup Basin Public Health Department jurisdiction includes the counties of: Blaine, Custer, Garfield, Greeley, Howard, Loup, Sherman, Valley, and Wheeler. This 9 county area has had only 11 new cases over the last 14 days.
“Our main goals have been to prevent our health care system from being overwhelmed and keep our community as safe and healthy as possible. We have been aggressively managing COVID-19 and the level of activity in our jurisdiction has been fairly low,” said Chuck Cone, Director of Loup Basin Public Health.
“With the low numbers of active cases we have experienced in the past month, it seems it has finally become time to move forward to the final phase of the directed health measures,” Cone said. “We believe we can continue to manage this virus and protect the residents of our nine counties by maintaining good social distancing practices, wearing masks when appropriate, along with other preventive measures.”
As of July 21st, 2020, all 93 Nebraska counties are in Phase 3 of the state’s DHM.
Information on the guidelines, which will be further relaxed in Phase 4 are available at http://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/COVID-19-Directed-Health-Measures.aspx along with a document that outlines all phases.
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