The owner of a Willsboro assisted living facility now facing a deadly coronavirus outbreak says he doesn’t know how the virus entered the facility. He said i
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The gym of the former Willsboro school was converted into a dining hall for Champlain Valley Senior Community â complete with holdover elements such as a scoreboard and wooden bleachers â as seen in June 2013. (Enterprise photo â Chris Knight) Two residents of a senior home in Willsboro have died after contracting COVID-19, and three other Essex County residents also died this week of the disease. There is a coronavirus outbreak at the Champlain Valley Senior Community. At least 30 people connected to the assisted living facility have tested positive, according to Willsboro town Supervisor and Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Shaun Gillilland.
Franklin County Public Health reported a spike in COVID-19 cases on Friday. Thirty-nine new cases of COVID-19 were identified between Thursday and Friday. That is abnormally high for this rural county, which has recently reported around 20 new cases each day. The new cases bring the total number of active cases countywide to 195. The county reported a 6.04% test positivity rate on Friday and a 6.36% seven-day average test positivity rate. Franklin County Manager Donna Kissane attributed the new cases to clusters in prisons, pre-surgery tests and community spread, meaning people who test positive without a known exposure to another positive case. “Adhering to the best practices in the best defense to reduce the spread of the virus,” she wrote in her daily email.