PORT ANGELES – In her daily briefing at the County Emergency Operations Center, Health Officer Allison Berry Unthank reported that there were still no known cases of the virus among county citizens, but she said they discovered a disturbing trend over the weekend.

“We did have an unfortunate thing that we started to realize over the weekend, which is that some King County residents have started coming to the Peninsula because our bars and restaurants are open and their’s are not. And so we did have two cases of positive folks who then had contact with Clallam County citizens. So we did contact tracing with those folks, and then some of them were tested over the weekend, and those are pending, and some of them are in quarantine at this point. I don’t think that the people who came here from King County meant us any ill. One of them thought he was having an allergy flare and then over the course of the day, he realized, “Oh, that’s not what’s going on. But he was already here.”

Whether either of those people actually spread the virus to local citizens remains to be seen.