MONDAY UPDATES: Boone County reports 19 new coronavirus cases over the weekend
The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services is reporting 19 new COVID-19 cases from Saturday through Monday.
There are currently 56 active cases in the county.
The county now has a reported total number of COVID-19 cases of 18,634.
The county has reported the total number of cases removed from isolation is 18,462.
The health department's hospital status remains in yellow.
The health department is reporting five Boone County residents are in the hospital due to the coronavirus.
The State of Missouri coronavirus vaccine dashboard is reporting that 88,864 residents have received their first dose in Boone County and 78,151 Boone County residents have completed their vaccine doses.
Boone County has the largest percentage of people in Mid-Missouri that have received at least one dose of the vaccine with 49.2%. The second closest in the state is St. Louis County with 47.2%.
Boone County is first in the state with a reported 43.3% of residents that have completed their coronavirus vaccine doses. St. Charles County is second in the state with 39.9% of residents have completed the doses for vaccination.
Cole County has the second-highest first vaccination rate in Mid-Missouri with 39.5%. Montgomery County is third with 35.6%.
More than 200 new COVID-19 cases in Missouri
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 227 new COVID-19 cases Monday, bringing the state's total to 516,057.
The state's positivity rate went up slightly now sitting at 5.4%. Meanwhile, Missouri is among the states seeing an increase in coronavirus cases overall. The state dashboard says new cases are up 16.2% over the last seven days, with the positivity rate increasing 0.9 percentage points during that time.
No new deaths were added. DHSS has recorded a total of 9,196 deaths in the state since the start of the pandemic.
The state also added 74 probable antigen cases of the virus to the dashboard Monday, bringing the total, to 90,228.
According to the state's vaccine dashboard, 42.9% of Missourians have received at least one dose of the vaccine and 36.4% have completed vaccination.
In total, 4,711,900 of the vaccine have been put into the arms of residents in the Show-Me State.
