COVID 19 Laclede County Cases 27 and 28

The Laclede County Health Department has received notification of two additional positive laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Laclede County. The total now stands at 28 cases. Eight currently being monitored and twenty considered recovered. _Case 27_ has reported being at multiple stores in The Battlefield Mall in Springfield from 3:p.m. to 6:p.m., Marshalls in Springfield 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 and Ross Store in Springfield 6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. all on the 24th of June. June 25th the same person was in Walmart in Lebanon from 1:p.m. to 1:15 p.m., Marshalls in Osage Beach 3:30 p.m. to 4:p.m., Ross Store in Osage Beach 4:p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Panera Bread in Osage Beach 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Lazy Lee’s Convenience Store in Lebanon on June 26th. This individual has been identified as an employee at a local long term residential care facility. All staff, residents, and family contacts have been notified. This person is infectious and symptomatic and was not wearing a mask. _Case 28_ is an unknown positive exposure, June 21st, 9:30 am to 12:30 p.m. at Lebanon First Assembly in Lebanon, also at El Sombrero Restaurant in Lebanon infectious, not symptomatic and not wearing a mask. Same case June 22nd 12:30p.m. to 1:30p.m. Dairy Queen in Lebanon wearing a mask, June 23rd, 5:30 p.m. to 6:p.m. Walmart in Lebanon, June 26th, 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Fast Eddies Muffler Shop in Lebanon wearing a mask. The Laclede County Health Department says testing of identified close contacts and quarantine or isolation steps have been taken to reduce community spread as well as daily monitoring.