Ouray County health officials continue to work with school districts, local governments and other leaders to monitor for COVID-19, a strain of coronavirus that 1.7 people had tested positive for in Colorado as of Wednesday afternoon.

In less than a week, the state went from having zero confirmed cases to reporting instances in Jefferson, Eagle, Pitkin, Gunnison, Arapahoe, Summit, Douglas, Larimer, Denver and El Paso counties. Many of the cases involved people who had recently traveled within the ...