Despite a rise in Lane County’s Covid 19 cases numbers are leveling down
Lane county reached 406 total cases of Covid 19 over the weekend, but Lane County Public Health Information officer Jason Davis had a positive outlook for the county during yesterday’s Covid 19 Information conference.
202 “they really are not being transmitted through community transmission here in our county, they are being brought in and spreading through there.”
Davis said that people that are more at risk seem to be taking the precautions to stay safe. That has kept Lane County’s hospitalizations down and death count down. 45 percent of Lane County’s Covid 19 cases are in those 30 and under.
201 “They were predominately travel related, and the ones that were not travel related were result of either household contact or contact known exposure through a small gathering. So that trend seems to be continuing.”
Lane County currently has one hospitalization and 54 cases that are within the first 10 days of symptoms. After the 40 case jump over the weekend Davis said the county’s count is leveling back down with only 7 cases reported Tuesday morning and a total 406 cases.
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