Ripley County Health Department reports prank calls to area businesses

Versailles, IN — The Ripley County Health Department has reported that several businesses in the county have received prank calls over the last 24 hours informing them that “Ripley County is in the Red Covid-19 metric and they will have to close”.  

At this time the Ripley County Health Department reports this call is false and they have no indication whether the county will move in metrics.  The metric is updated each Wednesday from the Indiana State Department of Health based on data from the past week.  This is updated at noon and can be seen here.  

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