5:17 p.m.:Â Cole County adds 27 new positive cases
The Cole County Health Department will now show positive case totals by day, which reflects the date the specimen was collected instead of the date the results were received by the Health Department.
This change will cause a delay in the daily totals being reported for the current day. The county is also no longer reporting active or isolated cases.
There have been 7,511 cases in Cole County, an increase of 27 cases over 24 hours. There have been 269 cases in long-term care facilities.
Twenty-seven new positive cases were reported Friday. In the updated graph below, you can see the number of cases added by specimen collection date for the month of February thus far.
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