North Central District Health Department (NCDHD) has been made aware of 16 additional positive COVID-19 cases in the district. Two (2) cases in Antelope County, one (1) case in Boyd County, one (1) case in Brown County, three (3) cases in Knox County, six (6) cases in Pierce County, and one (1) case in Rock County that through case investigations have been determined to be due from close contacts with positive cases. One (1) case in Brown County, one (1) case in Holt County through case investigations have been determined to be due to from community spread. All close contacts with all cases have been identified and asked to quarantine.
Additionally, North Central District Health Department is saddened to inform the district of the second COVID-19 related death in the district. The case was a Pierce County male in his 70’s and was reported to have underlying health conditions.
NCDHD has reported out 29 new positive COVID-19 cases, nine (9) recoveries, and one (1) death in the district since reporting on Monday of this week.
Case count update as of 8/13/2020 at 3:00 PM: 138 Total Cases (TC), 88 Recoveries (R), and 2 Deaths (D). A reminder that Total Case (TC) numbers are represented first, and of those total cases the number of Recovered (R) persons is represented second, and total case related Deaths (D) is represented third.
Antelope: TC: 22, R: 17, D: 1
Keya Paha: TC: 0
Boyd: TC: 8, R: 2
Knox: TC: 41, R: 35
Brown: TC: 4, R: 0
Pierce: TC: 38, R: 17, D:1
Cherry: TC: 6, R: 5
Rock: TC: 4, R: 3
Holt: TC: 15, R: 9
