COVID-19 cases continue to be added daily in Lincoln County. Since last week’s edition 71 positive cases have been added, bringing Lincoln County’s total of positive COVID-19 cases to 653 as of Tuesday, August 11.
Of those, 96 are currently active. In Lincoln County there are 555 recovered cases. Patients ever-hospitalized in the county has risen to 36. Two deaths are listed in Lincoln County.
Lincoln County is still defined as having substantial community spread.
The number of positive COVID-19 cases in the state of South Dakota are at 9713 as of Tuesday, August 11, of those, 1,060 are active cases. A total of 8,507 patients have recovered from the virus. Deaths in South Dakota due to COVID-19 have risen to 146. Currently hospitalized in South Dakota for the virus are 57 patients.
As a country, according to John Hopkins University and Medicine, the United States has 5,102,837 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases and 163,681 deaths as a result of COVID-19 as of August 11, 2020.