LA GRANDE — Union County is in the midst of an explosion of COVID-19.
The Center for Human Development on Monday afternoon announced 99 new cases. The spike puts the county at 123 cases — 121 confirmed and two presumptive — and moves Union County to the top of the state in cases per capita.
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