Active cases of COVID-19 drop to zero

At the COVID community update on Jan. 22, Incident Commander Karl Hagerman told the public that the local COVID-19 active case count had finally returned to zero. Additionally, there haven't been any new cases of the virus reported within the last seven days.

"We had a rough patch in the past week and a half or so with an increase in cases," said Hagerman on Jan. 22. "It's very nice to be back at zero."

Petersburg Medical Center has collected a total of 8,055 test samples as of Friday to be tested for COVID-19 onsite and at outside laboratories, according to the Petersburg Borough COVID-19 das...