Feb 06, 2021

Case count trending down in county as of Friday, death toll at 128

Posted Feb 06, 2021 12:34 PM

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County overall case count is at 329 as of Friday afternoon. The death count among Reno County residents is at 128.

The Correctional Facility cluster type has 7 active cases measured by the county's COVID-19 dashboard. The Long Term Care Facility cluster type has 76 active cases. Forty-nine people within those clusters have died. There are 20 active clusters in the county.

Out of 7,567 total cases since the beginning of the pandemic, there are 324 cases in the community at large. 7,110 people have recovered thus far.

Seven Reno County residents are in the hospital. According to the dashboard, three hundred fifty three total have been hospitalized. One hundred two have been admitted to the ICU. These are Reno County resident numbers regardless of where they are hospitalized.

The community's positive test rate is at 27.52%, with the overall positive test rate at 32.21%. 37.37% of the population has been tested.

There are still 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.

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