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SEDHD updates COVID-19 case info

By John Nixon

08/21/2020

(KLZA)-- The Southeast District Health Department has updated the information on their new COVID-19 Dashboard.

As of Friday morning there has been 17 new cases reported within the five-county service area since Monday.

There were two new cases in Johnson County bringing the total to 20.

Two additional cases in Nemaha County bring the county total to 52.

There was one new case in Pawnee County making the county total 10.

Otoe County had 12 additional cases pushing the total up to 79.

In Richardson County, two cases were removed from the total. Richardson County now has had 28 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

There have been two deaths reported from COVID-19 within the SEDHD service area.

Of the 189 total cases, 54.8 percent are from community spread. 33.9 percent are from direct contact. 6.4 percent of those with the virus have been hospitalized.

5,685 tests have been conducted for COVID-19 in the service area with 3.3 percent of those testing positive.

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