Dec 27, 2020

Case count at 591, with 585 in community as of Saturday afternoon

Posted Dec 27, 2020 11:24 AM

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County overall case count is at 591 as of Saturday afternoon. The death count among Reno County residents is at 91. Forty-four people have died in the last 30 days.

The Correctional Facility cluster type has 12 active cases measured by the county's COVID-19 dashboard. The Long Term Care Facility cluster type has 67 active cases. Thirty-three people within those clusters have died. There are 40 active clusters in the county.

Out of 6398 total cases since the beginning of the pandemic, there are 585 cases in the community at large. 5,716 people have recovered thus far.

Twenty-seven Reno County residents are in the hospital. Two hundred ninety-one total have been hospitalized. Eighty-nine have been admitted to the ICU and 30 have been intubated. These are Reno County resident numbers regardless of where they are hospitalized.

The community's positive test rate is at 26.69%, with the overall positive test rate at 31.78%. 32.03% 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., except for New Year's Day.