MONDAY UPDATES: Cole County reports four COVID-19 related deaths; 101st death overall

Cole County Health Department is reporting four COVID-19 related deaths bringing the total to 101 overall deaths.

The county is reporting three of the deaths from the county population, bringing the number of deaths to 56 overall. In the long term care facilities, the county is reporting one new death bringing the number of residents that died to 45.

The county is also reporting 47 new COVID-19 cases, 46 cases were in the general population. That brings the total number of cases to 7,445. There was only one new case in long-term care facility. That brings the total to 269 in LTC. There are 7,714 total COVID-19 cases in the county.

Boone County reports 70th COVID-19 related death; 469 active cases lowest since Nov. 2

Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services is reporting one new coronavirus related death.

This is the 70th COVID-19 related death since March 18. The individual was in the 80+ age group. This is the first death in February and 12th COVID-19 related death this year.

The health department is reporting 28 new COVID-19 cases.

The dashboard is currently reporting 469 active cases.

The county now has a reported total number of COVID-19 cases of 16,648.

The county has reported the total number of cases removed from isolation is 16,109.

Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services dashboard has reported the latest five-day average as 52.

The dashboard is reporting the positivity rate of 25.8% positivity rate for Jan. 22 through last Thursday.

The health department is reporting the total number of hospitalizations in Boone County is 61.

The number of Boone County residents hospitalized is reported to be 23.

The dashboard is reporting 24 COVID-19 patients in the ICU and 13 patients on ventilators.

The hospital status remains in the 'green' zone. 'Green status' says that hospitals are "Operating within licensed bed capacity; accepting patient transfers from referring hospitals within standard care operating procedures."

According to the Missouri Vaccine Dashboard, Boone County has the largest number of people vaccinated against COVID-19 with 6,383 having received their second dose.

The dashboard also reports that 16,064 have received their first dose.

The county also has the largest percentage of people that have received at least one dose of the vaccine with 8.9%. Pettis County is second with 8.8% followed by Cole County with 8.7%.

Boone County reports 88 new COVID-19 cases, MU scales back testing

Columbia/Boone County health officials reported 88 more COVID-19 cases over the weekend.

Stephanie Browning, the health department director, said during a Monday morning meeting that 75 new cases were reported on Saturday and 13 more were reported on Sunday.

The additional cases brings the county's total during the pandemic to 16,620.

Health officials included during the meeting that MU Health Care was scaling back its COVID-19 testing operation. MU Health Care spokesman Eric Maze said the testing site is now open from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. during the week and 8-11 a.m. on Saturdays.

Testing has gone down each week since 2021 started, according to MU data. For the week of Jan. 4, 2,132 tests were administered compared to 1,529 in the most recent data available.

Maze said the site was averaging about 3,000 tests each week in September. The testing site is located behind the Mizzou North building on Business Loop 70 West.

New COVID-19 cases fewer than 1,000

Missouri's new COVID-19 cases added on Monday were fewer than 1,000.

The state health department said total pandemic coronavirus cases were up to 459,597 -- an increase of 778 from the day before.

Statewide virus-related deaths stayed the same over the last 24 hours -- 6,748.

Missouri's seven-day COVID-19 positivity rate went down slightly to 9.3% on Monday.

State hospital officials reported COVID-19 hospitalizations at 1,908. Missouri coronavirus ICU admissions were reported at 427.

The Missouri coronavirus vaccination dashboard said 515,850 vaccine doses have been administered in the state. According to state data, 397,430 have received at least one dose of vaccine.