Idaho makes international virus news for all the wrong reasons

Coronavirus cases are surging in Idaho and the international news is taking notice.

A story published on Yahoo News by the international news agency, Agence France-Presse (AFP), about the fast-spreading COVID-19 cases in Idaho was the lead story on the Drudge Report Tuesday, which also marked the seventh time in 11 days the Gem State announced an increase of more than 500 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in a single day.

“Since last week, the small, rural northwestern U.S. state of Idaho has been racking up 500 new coronavirus cases a day — a sign of the exponential spread of the disease across the country,” the AFP story said. “With just 1.8 million inhabitants, Idaho — famous for its potatoes and meat processing plants — is seeing a virus resurgence as it also sweeps through the U.S. South and West.”

As virus case counts continue to rise regionally and statewide, individual public health districts have begun implementing localized pandemic response measures to continue to curb COVID-19 from spreading.

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