WEDNESDAY UPDATES: Boone County reports 57th COVID-19 related death
Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services is reporting one new coronavirus related death.
Officials say one individual was in the 80+ age group. That makes 57 total deaths since March.
The health department is reporting 117 new COVID-19 cases for Tuesday.
The dashboard is currently reporting 780 active cases, a 40 case increase from Monday.
The county now has a reported total number of COVID-19 cases of 13,705 since March.
The county has reported the total number of cases removed from isolation is 12,868, an increase of 76 cases.
Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services dashboard has reported the latest five-day average as 96, a 23 five-day average case increase.
The dashboard is reporting the positivity rate of 30.7% for Dec. 18 through last Thursday.
The health department is reporting the total hospitalizations in Boone County at 113 cases, a decrease of 11 cases.
The number of Boone County residents hospitalized is reported to be 34, an increase of two from Monday.
The dashboard is reporting 31 COVID-19 patients in the ICU and 14 patients on ventilators.
The hospital status is still currently in the 'yellow' zone.
Limited indoor dining to resume in St. Louis County
St. Louis County is allowing restaurants and bars to resume limited indoor dining starting Monday after shutting it down last month to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the establishments must close by 10 p.m. and capacity will be limited under the reopening plan that County Executive Sam Page announced Wednesday. They also must report customers' names and contact information to health workers tracing coronavirus outbreaks.
Public health officials and an informal group of restaurant advisers devised the safeguards. County bars and restaurants have been limited to outdoor dining and carryout since the county entered a "safer at home" order on Nov. 17 to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Statewide COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to increase
The Missouri state health department reported COVID-19 cases and deaths increased in an update posted on the department's coronavirus dashboard.
Statewide COVID-19 cases were up to a pandemic total of 388,856 on Wednesday morning -- an increase of 2,761 from Tuesday's dashboard update.
Health officials included virus-related deaths went up 58 in the last day to a pandemic total of 5,491.
The health department included the state ranked 20th in the country for new COVID-19 cases over the last seven days -- 13,613. Missouri also ranked 14th in the US for new deaths over the same time period -- 72.
Missouri's seven-day COVID-19 positivity rate was at 17.1% on Wednesday morning -- 0.2% higher from the day before.
