Jan 16, 2021

Case count at 484, with 476 in community as of Friday afternoon, deaths remain at 111

Posted Jan 16, 2021 10:29 AM

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County overall case count is at 484 as of Friday afternoon. The death count among Reno County residents is at 111.

The Correctional Facility cluster type has eleven 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 7,125 total cases since the beginning of the pandemic, there are 476 cases in the community at large. 6,530 people have recovered thus far.

Fourteen Reno County residents are in the hospital. According to the dashboard, three hundred thirty-two total have been hospitalized. Ninety-seven 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 27.24%, with the overall positive test rate at 32.17%. 35.23% 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.