Jan 12, 2021

Case count at 487, with 484 in community as of Monday afternoon

Posted Jan 12, 2021 11:21 AM

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County overall case count is at 487 as of Monday afternoon. The death count among Reno County residents is at 109.

The Correctional Facility cluster type has six active cases measured by the county's COVID-19 dashboard. The Long Term Care Facility cluster type has 69 active cases. Forty-four people within those clusters have died. There are 40 active clusters in the county.

Out of 6,971 total cases since the beginning of the pandemic, there are 484 cases in the community at large. 6,375 people have recovered thus far.

Ten Reno County residents are in the hospital. According to the dashboard, three hundred nineteen total have been hospitalized. Ninety-six have been admitted to the ICU and 31 have been intubated. These are Reno County resident numbers regardless of where they are hospitalized.

The community's positive test rate is at 27.24%, with the overall positive test rate at 32.45%. 34.18% of the population has been tested.

There are now two free public testing sites, one in the Cosmosphere parking lot in Hutchinson and one at Simply Good Overstocks parking lot in South Hutchinson. They are open Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.