Jan 27, 2021

Case count at 447, with 425 in community and 114 dead as of Tuesday afternoon

Posted Jan 27, 2021 11:43 AM

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County overall case count is at 447 as of Tuesday afternoon. The death count among Reno County residents is at 114.

The Correctional Facility cluster type has 27 active cases measured by the county's COVID-19 dashboard. The Long Term Care Facility cluster type has 72 active cases. Forty-four people within those clusters have died. There are 40 active clusters in the county.

Out of 7,417 total cases since the beginning of the pandemic, there are 425 cases in the community at large. 6,856 people have recovered thus far.

Ten Reno County residents are in the hospital. According to the dashboard, three hundred forty-one total have been hospitalized. One hundred have been admitted to the ICU. These are Reno County resident numbers regardless of where they are hospitalized. Intubation numbers are no longer on the county's dashboard.

The community's positive test rate is at 27.24%, with the overall positive test rate at 32.36%. 36.46% 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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