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MEDIA UPDATE
Incident: Coronavirus Update
This is a Civil Defense message.
Date: April 3, 2020
Time: 8:30am
Radio Frequency: 1 hr
Update #: 1
This is a Coronavirus informational update for Friday morning, at 8:30.
On the Coronavirus status:
The total number of people tested positive on Hawaii Island is 24 with 15 recovered and
the remaining 9 are quarantined at home with Department of Health monitoring. At this
date for Hawaii Island, no one that has been infected by the virus had to be
hospitalized.
We need to do our share and support our community's health by heeding the policies of
prevention, stay at home, social distancing, gatherings and traveling, with that the
majority of those infected have minor or no symptoms but may be carriers of the virus
which is spread so easily within our community.
Drive-through coronavirus screening and testing will be conducted in Hilo at the
Ho'olulu Complex on Sunday April 5 from 8am to 3pm. Drive-through testing clinics in
Kona are on Mondays and Thursdays from 8:00 a.m. to noon, at the Keauhou Shopping
Center. Mahalo for the great turnouts for testing that have been happening in Kona.
Your involvement is needed to follow all policies to stop the spread of the virus. Do Call
Civil Defense at 935-0031 for any clarification on these matters.
Thank you for listening and be well. Have a safe Aloha Friday.
This is your Hawaii County Civil Defense.
http://www. hawaiicount.gv/fictive.-alrts