The Allegan County Health Department has reported four more deaths in the last week as a result of the Coronavirus, bringing the total to 184 since the pandemic began in March 2020.
As of Friday, Aug. 27, the death toll was listed at 160, and the county’s number since the start of the pandemic had remained at 158 for about two months over the summer. So the toll for just under two months is 24.
It should be noted that death numbers customarily lag behind figures for cases.
The testing positivity rate for the disease is now 16.29, up 1.5 percentage points in the past week and nearly 4 percent over the past two weeks. There have been 18 new hospitalizations over the past two weeks and the average daily number of cases has increased to 52.6, up from 44, over seven days.
A total of 717 cases has been reported in the county over the past two weeks, again a slight increase. There now have been 319 hospitalizations from Covid in Allegan County since the pandemic began, an increase over 316 reported on Oct. 8. The number of tests is 20,062, almost 2,000 more than a week ago and 12,545 people have been characterized as recovered.
The Allegan County Health Department Aug. 18 issued a directive for all public schools in the county to mandate children in grades K-6 to wear masks in the classrooms because they are not eligible for vaccinations. In the wake of protests from parents and the State Legislature’s threat of withholding funding, the Health Department rescinded its mask order Oct. 1.
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