Idaho’s statewide total of confirmed coronavirus cases surpasses 1,900
Idaho’s confirmed coronavirus cases reached 1,909 on Saturday with the addition of 23 cases among eight counties.
Ada County shouldered the largest increase with 13 new cases for a total of 664, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. IDHW also reported additional cases in Elmore (2 new, 29 total), Gooding (1 new, 10 total), Jerome (1 new, 45 total), Lincoln (2 new, 26 total), Minidoka (1 new, 8 total) and Twin Falls (4 new, 164 total) counties.
Canyon County’s confirmed case total was reduced by one to 243. It is likely that case was moved to another county, but information on the reduction was not available.
There are 156 “probable cases” throughout the state, an increase of one from Friday. Health and Welfare reports that 1,267 cases are “presumed recovered.”
In the past 24 hours, Health and Welfare added 22 hospitalizations and seven intensive care admissions due to the coronavirus to its website totals. IDHW does update information retroactively, so it is not clear what specific dates had an increase in admissions. There have been 200 hospitalizations and 83 ICU admissions statewide, according to IDHW.
Ada County’s 17th death from COVID-19 was announced Friday by Central District Health. Using updated demographic information on the IDHW website, the deceased individual was a male 80 or older.
Daily details
Hospitalizations: Health and Welfare reports that there have been 200 hospitalizations due to the coronavirus, 83 admissions to the ICU and 261 health care workers who have been infected. The hospital and health care numbers are based on cases with completed investigations into contacts, not the full number of positives.
Testing totals: At the end of the day Saturday, Health and Welfare reported that 29,651 tests had been completed statewide. About 6.4% have been positive for COVID-19.
Counties with confirmed COVID-19 cases: Ada 664, Adams 3, Bannock 7, Bingham 4, Blaine 487, Bonner 4, Bonneville 17, Camas 1, Canyon 243, Caribou 1, Cassia 13, Custer 2, Elmore 29, Fremont 2, Gem 11, Gooding 10, Idaho 3, Jefferson 4, Jerome 45, Kootenai 62, Latah 5, Lemhi 1, Lincoln 26, Madison 7, Minidoka 8, Nez Perce 51, Owyhee 8, Payette 14, Power 2, Teton 8, Twin Falls 164, Valley 2 and Washington 1.
Counties with community spread: Ada, Bannock, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, Jefferson, Jerome, Kootenai, Lemhi, Owyhee, Madison, Payette, Teton and Twin Falls.
This story was originally published May 2, 2020 at 6:47 PM.
