 COLUMBUS, Ohio AP - Ohio is using a new color-coded, county-by-county coronavirus alert and advisory system to assess which areas may be seeing flare-ups of cases and should take additional precautions, Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday as he also announced much-awaited guidance for reopening schools. The alert system takes into account seven indicators for each county, such as sustained increases in cases and in coronavirus-related hospital admissions, outpatient visits and emergency room visits, and the proportion of cases that arent connected to congregate settings, such as prisons or nursing homes. State officials said they also intend to factor in information from coronavirus testing and contact-tracing. This information should inform people. I think it should fire people up, DeWine said. I think it should get people excited and say, Hey, were tougher than this. Were not gonna let this happen to our state. We are not gonna be Florida. We are not gonna be Texas. We are not gonna be Italy. ... This is a long battle, and we won Round 1, maybe Round 2, but this is 15 Round heavyweight championship, and weve got to stay in there and weve got to stay punching. No counties are listed in the most concerning level - labeled purple - but Columbus and surrounding Franklin County are being watched closely as their data indicators are trending in that direction based on explosive growth in positive tests, DeWine said. Franklin and six more counties - Butler, Cuyahoga, Hamilton, Huron, Montgomery and Trumbull - are labeled red, indicating risk there is considered very high and people there should limit activity away from home as much as possible and wear masks when they go out. Twenty-eight counties were in the orange category Thursday, and 53 were labeled with the least-concerning... 