COVID update

“We had a very good week with only five new cases reported in the past sven days,” said Barton County Health Department Administrator Joel Dermott. He added that both the positivity rate and case rate are below the state average.

To date the total number of COVID cases in Barton County is 1523, with four active, 27 deaths and 1492 recovered.

As noted above, new cases the past seven days sits at five.