(Mills Co) Mills County Public Health has been notified of two additional positive confirmed cases of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Mills County. This brings the total number of confirmed positive cases to nine in the county.
A total of 132 Mills County residents have been tested to date. The new cases are both adults, one in the age range of 18-40 years and one in the age range of 41-60. One virus was contracted through community spread and one through close contact with a positive case.
Mills County Public Health is currently conducting contact investigations to identify and follow up with any people who had close contact with the ill individual. Close contacts are educated about self-monitoring their health status by our health department nurses. They are required to do daily symptom and temperature checks; as well as quarantine themselves for 14 days as a precaution.
Three of the cases have recovered and the remaining six cases are being followed by Mills County Public Health.
