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Thursday, May 7, 2020 | A12 | Mid Valley TiMes Honoring a Dinuba High grad-to-be
COVID-19
update
As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 5, there had been 724 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Fresno County, with nine deaths. Among Mid Valley Times cities, Sanger (including the region to the northeast) had the most positive cases with 52 while Reedley had 35 cases. Parlier has 30 cases while Orange Cove has 19 cases. Fowler has four or fewer cases. The county reported that 253 of the positive cases had recovered.
In Tulare County, there were 858 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 40 deaths as of noon on May 5. Breakdowns by cities/regions now are available, with 118 cases in Dinuba, 14 in Orosi, and less than 11 each in rural areas south of Reedley, in the Traver area and east of Orange Cove.
A total of 146 people had recovered from the virus in Tulare County.
ABOVE LEFT: Dinuba High School senior Destiny Meza stood outside her front yard on May 3, as family members paraded in front of her house to celebrate her graduation. As many seniors around the Valley and the nation are faced with uncertain circumstances regarding graduation ceremonies, many have taken to new ways of expressing celebrations — including parading in front of a person’s house to comply with social distancing.
ABOVE: Destiny Meza gets a closer look at friends and family members as they drove down her street on May 3. Destiny received balloons and well wishes from a parade of loved ones. “We had to do something for her. She deserves it,” her mother said.
LEFT: While honoring graduating DHS senior Meza, one parade participate man- aged to celebrate two occasions at once, celebrating a graduation and Cinco de
Mayo all at once.
Photos by Rick Curiel / Mid Valley Times
COVID-19 Continued from page A1
ty Health and Human Services have teamed up with Logistics Health Incorporated to set up a testing station at the Dinuba Veterans Memorial Building.
A soft opening was conduct- edatthesiteonMay4,andap- pointments can be made via online registration (https://lhi. care/covidtesting) or by tele- phone at (888) 634-1123.
Logistics Health Incorpo- rated, a testing corporation,
has established more than 70 testing stations throughout the state and plans to open more in the coming weeks. Included at the end of this week is one at the Sanger Youth Center, in a community and surrounding region that has reported 52
positive cases through Tuesday, May 5.
In Reedley, where there 35 confirmed cases through May 5, Adventist Health has a CO- VID-19 Virtual Assistant and Symptom Checker at Adventis- tHealth.org/Central-Valley.
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