North Central District Health Department (NCDHD) has been made aware of an additional positive COVID-19 case in Holt County. Through case investigation, all close contacts have been identified, contacted, and asked to quarantine. It has been determined the case contracted the illness through travel to an area with widespread transmission.

NCDHD has nine (9) new recoveries to report across the district: 3-Knox, 3-Holt, 1-Cherry, 1-Pierce, 1-Antelope.

Case count update as of 8/4/2020 at 3:00 PM: 90 Total Cases (TC), 79 Recoveries (R), and 1 Death (D). A reminder that Total Case (TC) numbers are represented first, and of those total cases the number of Recovered (R) persons is represented second, and total case related Deaths (D) is represented third.

Antelope: TC: 19 R: 16, D: 1
Boyd: TC: 1, R: 1
Brown: TC: 0
Cherry: TC: 4 R: 3
Holt: TC: 12 R: 9
Keya Paha: TC: 0
Knox: TC: 35 R: 31
Pierce: TC: 17 R: 17
Rock: TC: 2, R: 2