Wyoming’s active coronavirus cases increased by 57 on Wednesday from Tuesday.
Wyoming Department of Health figures showed that the department received reports of five new recoveries among those with confirmed or probable cases.
At the same time, the state reported 47 new laboratory-confirmed and 15 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 433 active cases.
Laramie county increased by 22 active cases Wednesday to have 101; Albany County increased to 69; Natrona had 41; Sweetwater 38; Teton 34; Campbell 28; Fremont 20; Sheridan 18; Carbon 16; Goshen 13; Uinta 11; Park 10; Big Horn and Sublette eight; Weston five; Crook, Lincoln and Platte three; Johnson two, and Converse and Hot Springs one,
Niobrara and Washakie had no active cases as of Wednesday.
Active cases are determined by adding the total confirmed and probable coronavirus cases diagnosed since the illness first surfaced in Wyoming on March 12, 2020, subtracting the number of recoveries during the same period among patients with both confirmed and probable cases and taking into account the number of deaths attributed to the illness.
The new confirmed and probable cases brought to 57,518 the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus since the first case was detected in Wyoming in March 2020.
Of those, 56,380 have recovered.
