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<br />CIVIL DEFENSE AGENCY Date: July 17, 2020 <br />MEDIA UPDATE Time: 08:00 AM <br />Radio Frequency: Every 2 Hours <br /> Update #: 1 <br />Incident: Coronavirus Update <br />This is a Civil Defense message. <br />th <br />This is a COVID-19 informational update for Friday, July 17. <br />On today’s update of COVID-19, the number of active cases, monitored by the <br />Department of Health, for Hawaii Island is twelve. Of this, one is hospitalized. <br />Yesterday’s testing of Kona Community Hospital staff and contractors resulted in 548 <br />persons tested. Results are pending. Thank you Premier Medical and the County Task <br />Force for conducting the testing. <br />The majority of states continue to see an increase of people being infected by the <br />Coronavirus. We need your help to keep Hawaii Island numbers low. Please take the <br />time to follow the preventive measures of face coverings, distancing, gatherings, and <br />cleanliness. When you interact with Kupuna remember that they are the most <br />vulnerable to Coronavirus, so we must be especially careful when visiting our loved <br />ones. As a reminder, wearing of face coverings is mandatory on Hawaii Island. <br />For your information, a drive through testing is scheduled for today in North Kona at the <br />Keauhou Shopping Center. Hours are from 9:00 in the morning to 12:00 noon. Mahalo <br />Ali`i Health for providing this service and the Hawaii National Guard and County Task <br />Force for helping. An `Ohana food service is also scheduled in South Kona at the <br />Ho`okena Elementary School and in Puna at the Pahoa Community Center. <br />Distribution at both sites begins at 10:00 this morning. Thank you Hawaii Food Basket <br />and their contributors for providing this service and the Hawaii National Guard and <br />County Task Force for helping <br />Thank you for listening, thank you for doing your part to keep Hawaii safe. <br />This is your Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency. <br />