Jan 04, 2021

Case count at 445, with 439 in community as of Sunday afternoon, death count at 104

Posted Jan 04, 2021 10:56 AM

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County overall case count is at 445 as of Sunday afternoon. The death count among Reno County residents is at 104.

The Correctional Facility cluster type has eight active cases measured by the county's COVID-19 dashboard. The Long Term Care Facility cluster type has 66 active cases. Forty people within those clusters have died. There are 40 active clusters in the county.

Out of 6,648 total cases since the beginning of the pandemic, there are 439 cases in the community at large. 6,099 people have recovered thus far.

Twenty-one Reno County residents are in the hospital. Three hundred thirteen total have been hospitalized. Ninety-four 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 26.80%, with the overall positive test rate at 32.17%. 32.88% 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.