By Tim Mandese, Cowboy State Daily.
Wyoming’s active coronavirus case total increased by 483 on Wednesday.
The Wyoming Department of Health said it received reports of 83 recoveries among those with confirmed or probable cases Wednesday.
At the same time, the state reported 375 new laboratory-confirmed and 191 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 3,749 active cases for Wednesday
Thirteen counties have more than 100 active cases, with seven having more than being over 200. Natrona County had 659; Campbell had 394; Laramie 337; Fremont 294; Park 244; Sheridan 225; Uinta 223; Sweetwater 177; Albany 158; Washakie 148; Lincoln 144; Converse 109; Goshen 105; Big Horn 98; Sublette 84; Platte 73; Carbon 65; Johnson 50; Crook 45; Weston 35; Teton 34, Hot Springs had 33, while Niobrara reported the fewest active cases, with 15. No county reported zero active cases.
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 93,083 the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus since the first case was detected in Wyoming in March 2020. Of those, 88,293 have recovered.
