By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Reno County Health Department Director Nick Baldetti does not see the value in immediate updates each time there is a positive COVID-19 case at this point and updates will now come on Fridays.
"We're past that point," Baldetti said. "We'll break that one day a week press release cycle if we have a case with an atypical circumstance that might warrant more information for public awareness in terms of if we have, say, a cluster event in a certain public facility or something to that effect."
A new positive was recieved on Sunday.
"It's an individual associated with our 45th positive," Baldetti said. "They attended the same family event out of state. This individual has come back, is in Reno County and is currently in isolation. It's a female in her 20s."
That means there are a total of three active cases among Reno County residents currently. The online dashboard will continue to be updated in real time as case results come in.
"If you all want to continue to monitor that, in terms of case counts and activity, that will still be updated, as we receive that information, as we get those positives back from the state," Baldetti said.
The dashboard is also going to start to look at any cases that are over 45 days old in other counties as recovered, in an effort to get better recovery statistics from a statewide perspective.