July 14, 2022 3:50 a.m. (updated 9:15 a.m.)

The number of COVID-19 cases in Douglas County is up nearly sixty percent over the previous week.

Information from the Douglas Public Health Network showed 303 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the week ending Wednesday. That compares to 189 new cases reported the previous week. While a large uptick, the new numbers are well under the highest weekly case count during the Delta variant surge last summer. Between August 26th and September 1st, 1,048 new cases of COVID-19 were reported. That was the highest weekly case count of the pandemic.

15 people were hospitalized related to COVID-19 in the county as of Wednesday. That is almost a seventy percent increase over the 9 hospitalized related to the virus the previous Wednesday.

No COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in the past week. Since the pandemic began in January 0f 2020, 409 county residents have died related to COVID-19, while 22,006 cases of COVID-19 have been reported.

Go to www.douglaspublichealthnetwork,org for more local information on COVID-19.