MIAMISBURG (AP) — Local health officials are reporting a COVID-19 outbreak among people who attended a church retreat in southwest Ohio several weeks ago.
Dayton and Montgomery County public health officials said more than 800 people attended the Baptist Church retreat at Camp Chautauqua in Miamisburg from June 27 to July 3.
The retreat included attendees and churches from Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana.
Officials said at least 30 cases among attendees living in Ohio and Kentucky have been identified so far.
Lacking contact information, officials are asking anyone who may have attended to contact them or their local health department.
The U.S. has seen a string of COVID-19 outbreaks tied to summer camps in recent weeks, offering what some fear could be a preview of the upcoming school year.
The clusters have come as the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S. has reversed course, surging more than 60% over the past two weeks from an average of about 12,000 a day to about 19,500.
The rise in many places has been blamed on too many unvaccinated people and the highly contagious delta variant.