Five people have died from an outbreak of COVID-19 at a nursing home in Massachusetts, according to officials.
reported. Those numbers do not include an additional 127 people who were tested in drive-by facilities on Friday.
"We have taken this action out of an abundance of caution to prevent the COVID-19 virus from further spreading in our community," Mecklenburg County public health director Gibbie Harris said in a statement."This type of order is rare, but sometimes necessary. It prevents the church from opening or allowing any further gathering, making sure we stop this outbreak from going any further.
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