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UPDATE: Health Dept. now says there were multiple positive COVID-19 cases at Oregon funeral home

Anyone who visited the funeral home on Sunday, July 5 from 1 - 8 p.m. may have been exposed.

OREGON, Ohio — Leaders with the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department Lucas now say that through contact tracing they have discovered that multiple people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 visited an Oregon funeral home in early July.

Anyone who visited the Eggleston Meinert and Pavley Funeral Home at 440 S. Coy Rd. on Sunday July 5 from 1 - 8 p.m. for the funeral and showings of Jeremy Newman and Richard Molinski may have been exposed to the virus.

According to the Health Department, Every guest in attendance for longer than 15 minutes should self-quarantine through Sunday July 19. 

Anyone who may have been exposed should monitor themselves for symptoms such as fever, cough, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea and/or difficulty breathing until July 19. 

If symptoms do develop you are asked to call your doctor and get a COVID test.

If you are elderly, have an underlying condition, are immunocompromised or are just concerned, you should call your doctor for guidance.

For more information on the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department, click here.

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