4 more cases added to the covid-19 total

The Laclede County Health Department reported 4 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday. That brings the county’s total to 277, with 25 of those cases currently active. Health Department Administrator, Charla Baker, says there were several locations of possible public exposure with the four new cases on Friday…………

The state of Missouri reported 1,418 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the statewide total to just under 81-thousand cases. The state also reported 14 more deaths on Friday, bringing the total number of lives lost due to COVID-19 to 1,464. Over one-thousand Missourians are now hospitalized with the virus. In the counties surrounding Laclede County, Camden County has reported 500 cases, Pulaski County has reported 374, Webster County has reported 205 cases, Dallas County has reported 105 confirmed cases, and Texas County has reported 91. Those numbers are provided by the Missouri COVID Dashboard. Over the last week, 12.3 percent of Missouri residents tested for the virus have been infected.