10-1-21 LACLEDE COUNTY COVID-19 NUMBERS

THE LACLEDE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT ON THURSDAY RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF TWENTY FOUR ADDITIONAL POSITIVE LAB-CONFIRMED CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN….THAT BRINGS THE COUNTY TOTAL SINCE THE PANDEMIC STARTED TO FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT CASES, WITH ONE HUNDRED THIRTY CURRENTLY BEING MONITORED…..FOUR THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED FIFTY TWO HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED RECOVERED WITH A TOTAL OF ONE HUNDRED
TWENTY SIX DEATHS….OF THE TWENTY FOUR NEW CASES, TWENTY TWO WERE CONSIDERED SYMPTOMATIC, TWO WERE A-SYMPTOMATIC WITH EIGHT IDENTIFIED AS CLOSE CONTACT TO A POSITIVE CASE AND SEVEN IDENTIFIED AS HOUSEHOLD CONTACT TO A POSITIVE CASE…