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Officials from the Yakima Health District say field staff members are visiting homes and businesses collecting water samples and offering well testing.

Yakima Health District officials say the person was between the ages of 30 and 49-years-old.

Naloxone is a life-saving medication that can reverse an overdose from opioids including heroin, fentanyl, and prescription opioid medications, when given in time.

Now the question remains where to place a new Narcan vending machine.

Yakima Mission Director says he's against Narcan vending machines.

Will Yakima health officials require masking in the future?

The variants latch onto cells more tightly, invade them more efficiently, and elude many of the antibodies induced by previous infections and vaccines.

Many of the machines are open around the state including in King County and nearby Klickitat County.

In the most recent report from April 1 through June 30 a high of 151 cases of COVID-19 were reported over a 14 day period, resulting in a case rate of 58 per 100,000 residents.

Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice says so far half way through the month of July and a total of 46 people have died.

In the annual report, the Yakima Health District does not state whether these places had low or high risk violations.