{"id":39896,"date":"2020-03-03T00:13:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T06:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=39896"},"modified":"2020-03-03T00:13:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T06:13:40","slug":"39896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=39896","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wate.com\/health\/coronavirus\/ga-governor-confirms-2-cases-of-covid-19-in-fulton-county\/\">GA governor confirms 2 cases of COVID-19 in Fulton County.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, Delta airlines does have that hub in Atlanta. What should we expect?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ATLANTA, Ga. (WATE) \u2014 Georgia governor Brian Kemp and state public health officials confirmed Monday night the state\u2019s first two COVID-19 coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>According to a<a href=\"https:\/\/dph.georgia.gov\/press-releases\/2020-03-02\/gov-kemp-officials-confirm-two-cases-covid-19-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" news release (opens in a new tab)\">\u00a0news release<\/a>\u00a0from the Georgia Department of Public Health, the two cases involve residents of the same household in Fulton County. Both people have mild symptoms and they were being isolated at home with other relatives to keep the illness from spreading.<\/p>\n<p>One of the patients had recently returned from Italy, the release stated.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Monday evening, Gov. Kemp spoke with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence about the two confirmed coronavirus cases, the news release stated, and the Governor\u2019s Coronavirus Task Force was briefed via conference call at roughly 9:30 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>We knew that Georgia would likely have confirmed cases of COVID-19, and we planned for it. The immediate risk of COVID-19 to the general public, however, remains low at this time,\u201d said Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.P.H, DPH commissioner. \u201cI cannot emphasize enough the need for all Georgians to follow the simple precautions that DPH always urges to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GA governor confirms 2 cases of COVID-19 in Fulton County. Well, Delta airlines does have that hub in Atlanta. What should we expect? ATLANTA, Ga. (WATE) \u2014 Georgia governor Brian Kemp and state public health officials confirmed Monday night the state\u2019s first two COVID-19 coronavirus cases. According to a\u00a0news release\u00a0from the Georgia Department of Public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=39896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39897,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39896\/revisions\/39897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}