HUTCHINSON, Kan. — According to the Reno County dashboard at renogov.org, the county has hit 250 active cases of COVID-19. The big bump is once again from an update on the case count at Hutchinson Correctional Facility. 156 of the cases are related to that cluster. Those updates typically come out on Wednesdays.
The previous long-term care facility cluster in Pretty Prairie no longer registers any active cases. Only nine other cases in the county are cluster related. That means there are 85 non-cluster related cases in the county.
276 people have recovered. One person died from the virus.
As of Wednesday's report from the Reno County Health Department, there were six positive COVID patients receiving treatment from Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, nine others are awaiting test results and one person is intubated.
The positive test rate has very slightly ticked up. It is at 9.1% counting the prison and 6.67% for community cases. 9.21% of the population has been tested.