County records two more COVID cases

Perkins County loses seven nursing home residents to virus

    In its weekly COVID-19 update, the Southwest Nebraska  Public Health Department (SWNPHD) on Monday reported 10 new positive cases in the district.
    Included were two from Chase County—a male in his 20s related to travel and a female in her 50s whose case is being investigated.
    The Monday press release noted two more deaths in the nine-county district related to COVID-19, for a total of three.
    However, Perkins County Health Services CEO Neil Hilton told commissioners in Grant Monday that 13 residents there have tested positive for the virus, and of those, seven have died.
    Six of the deaths there came over a five-day period July 31 to Aug. 3, statistics that likely hadn’t been formally recorded by SWNPHD before its Monday press release.
    Hilton told the Grant Tribune -Sentinel the situation at Golden Ours Convalescent Home has been like a “wind-driven grass fire.”
    On a positive note, Hilton reported the 24 remaining residents, 14 in Golden Ours and 10 in Park Ridge assisted living, along with 40 or so employees all tested negative last week.
    Dundy County also reported its first case the past week, a female in her 20s related to travel.
 

 

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