Coronavirus having an impact on Halloween celebrations

Many families are coming up with alternatives

Saturday night.

Like so many things this year, coronavirus is impacting halloween.

Waay-31's bridget divers joins us live from toyota field... she learned how one family is celebrating the holiday this year.

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Bridget?

Halloween is tomorrow and many families are still planning on trick-or- treating.

One parent talked to me today about how she's going to keep her son and nephew safe while letting them have some halloween fun.

Every halloween deborah brashers takes her son and nephew trick-or-treating on a hay ride.

Deborah brashers/ madison county mom "we go and get the truck trailer, a truck trailer and his uncle either drives his truck or his tractor or four- wheeler.

We put hay on the trailer and we have a hay ride for the boys and we go around a nice neighborhood where my cousin lives down the road and that's where we have our hide ride at."

And they're still taking the boys trick-or-treating this year.

But with some added precautions.

"their costumes come with masks and they have a filter in them, a screen filter in both of the masks and then their costumes the cdc says that traditional trick-or-treating is a high risk acitivity for the fall so if you can prepackage halloween candy for trick-or-treaters it will help stop the spread of coronavirus.

Live at toyota field, bridget divers, waay-31 news.

Alabama health officials are concerned that halloween related activities could result in a spike of coronavirus cases.

They urge everyone to keep wearing