Jan 29, 2021

Case count at 407, with 389 in community as of Friday afternoon, deaths now at 115

Posted Jan 29, 2021 8:56 PM

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County overall case count is at 407 as of Friday afternoon. The death count among Reno County residents is at 115.

The Correctional Facility cluster type has 20 active cases measured by the county's COVID-19 dashboard. The Long Term Care Facility cluster type has 78 active cases. Forty-five people within those clusters have died. There are 40 active clusters in the county.

Out of 7,473 total cases since the beginning of the pandemic, there are 389 cases in the community at large. 6,951 people have recovered thus far.

Twelve Reno County residents are in the hospital. According to the dashboard, three hundred fifty 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 27.62%, with the overall positive test rate at 32.32%. 36.79% 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.