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		<title>COVID-19 Virus Slams Calvert Manor Nursing Home, National Guard to Help; Elkton, Rising Sun Local Virus Hot Spots, Map Shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2020 20:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sudden onslaught of COVID-19 cases at Calvert Manor nursing home in Rising Sun, with patients and staff testing positive for the virus, prompted emergency steps Saturday to bring in a special state medical “strike force,” including the National Guard. And new zip code data released Sunday by the state show Elkton and Rising Sun are the prime locations of confirmed infections in Cecil County. As of Sunday morning, there were 82 confirmed cases of the virus in the county, including one fatality. The numbers of confirmed cases have grown exponentially in recent days, from 17 cases reported by the local health agency on Wednesday 4/1/2020 to the 82 cases reported on Sunday 4/12/2020. As of Saturday afternoon, there were no known cases at other nursing homes in the county but local health officials admitted that they lacked sufficient testing supplies to verify virus status at other facilities. In Cecil County, the new state reporting of cases by zip codes showed Elkton with 37 cases and Rising Sun with 14 cases. That report totaled just 51 cases, or far less than the 82 confirmed cases reported by health officials so far in the county. The maps showed no cases in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Budget: Virus &#8220;Crisis&#8221; and Revenue Uncertainty Shape Budget; County Exec Avoids Raid on Emergency Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2020 19:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy admits putting together the Fiscal 2021 county budget was a bit like being in a hurricane bunker while hoping that the COVID-19 pandemic that has wreaked havoc with the state and local economy won’t overwhelm the fiscal safety measures he installed over the past three years that could help the county weather the storm. “I must say it is by far the most difficult budget my staff and I have ever put forward,” McCarthy said Wednesday (4/1/2020) in presenting his proposals during a Facebook live teleconference. “We are in the midst of a crisis none of us has ever experienced before.” He said that he and his staff had to rewrite the budget substantially in the past two weeks, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded and Gov. Larry Hogan took escalating steps to shut down most businesses in the state, leading to his most recent “stay home” order to all but essential services workers. The new county budget proposal freezes property tax rates and income tax rates at current levels and the county executive has included a new property tax credit for senior citizens to give them up to a 20 percent break on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>BULLETIN: Cecil County Records First Fatality from COVID-19 Virus; Elderly Man Dies at Union Hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 23:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County has recorded its first fatality from the COVID-19 virus, which claimed the life of an 80-year old man at Union Hospital on Tuesday (3/31/2020), county sources said. Statewide, the lethal virus had claimed the lives of 18 people as of 10 a.m. on Tuesday (3/31/2020), according to a daily update by the state health department and the Governor’s office. However, those daily statewide and county-by-county figures on fatalities and confirmed cases of the virus, issued by the state at 10 am, have often lagged local health agency’s information by a day or more. The Cecil County fatality was recorded Tuesday afternoon. For example, the Tuesday morning state report listed positive-tests for the virus at 14 cases in Cecil County, but the Cecil County health agency report counted 16 confirmed cases in the county at that point. The state Health Department virus count, issued on Tuesday morning (3/31/2020), listed a statewide death count at 18 people, with a total state positive test result for the virus listed at 1,660 people. Maryland has been slow to step up testing for the virus, with Gov. Larry Hogan promising weeks ago to set up virus testing at Motor Vehicle Administration auto emissions [&#8230;]]]></description>
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