Rock County averaging 40 new cases of COVID-19 a day

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Rock County is starting to see a slight decrease in the number of new COVID-19 cases reported each day.

Public Health Department Epidemiologist Nick Zupan says at the end of last week, Rock County was seeing about 50 new cases a day, and this week that number is down to about 40 new cases a day.

Zupan says right now there are about 890 active cases in Rock County and there have been 214 deaths due to COVID-19.

Zupan says most recently 21 patients were in the hospital receiving care for COVID-19.

In total about 56 percent of Rock County residents have gotten at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 53 percent are fully vaccinated.