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With 12 positive COVID-19 cases, Beadle County, Huron begin business closures

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HURON — With what is believed to be South Dakota’s first community spread of COVID-19 leading to a swell in positive cases, the city of Huron and Beadle County decided Sunday to put restrictions on businesses.

During a joint meeting of the Huron City Commission and Beadle County Commission, the city and county each passed an ordinance and resolution closing recreational facilities, halting dine-in service at all restaurants and bars and banning gatherings of 10 or more people socially or at a business beginning Monday. The decision marks the first government-mandated business restrictions in the state aimed at reducing the virus’ spread.

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The cost of care: Patients, facilities struggle to cover expenses at long-term care facilities

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Julie Yager’s 92-year-old father died in February, but her struggle with the nursing home he had lived in didn’t end until months later.

Yager, who was not legally responsible for her father, Peter Oberosler, at the time of his death, began receiving bills for his stay at the Good Samaritan Society in Corsica.

“I thought I had made myself pretty straight, that I wasn’t financially responsible for the debt and that my dad didn’t have the money, and they didn’t deserve it,” Yager said, referencing a call she made about a bill she was sent in February. “So I thought that would be the end of it, but I continued to get billings.”

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