Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Announces Partnership with Fulton County to Combat COVID-19
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced a new partnership with the Fulton County Board of Health to combat COVID-19. The $7.7 million agreement will expand COVID-19 testing to reach at least 20,000 Atlanta residents, hire more than 150 contact tracing support staff, map demography trends to include racial and ethnic disparities and more.
“This partnership will fund an unprecedented effort between the City of Atlanta and the Fulton County Board of Health to save lives and prevent the spread of this deadly virus,” said Mayor Bottoms. “Thank you to our partners for what will be a monumental step closer to flattening the curve in Atlanta.”
In addition to expanding testing, contact tracing and data collection, the agreement will:
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Improve access to critical resources—including food and medicine delivery for those in quarantine;
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Expand public health communications and educational marketing to promote testing; and
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Identify social impacts in communities disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
For a snapshot of the most recent data and metrics related to the City’s progress and updates on Atlanta’s current reopening phase, please visit the COVID-19 Atlanta Reopening Dashboard.
The Mayor’s reopening plan can be viewed online at this link.
Additional COVID-19 information and resources can be found at ATLStrong.org.