By Tim Mandese, Cowboy State Daily.
Wyoming’s active coronavirus increased by 259 on Wednesday.
Wyoming Department of Health figures showed that the department received reports of 450 recoveries Tuesday among those with confirmed or probable cases.
At the same time, the state reported 505 new laboratory-confirmed and 204 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 1,768 active cases for Wednesday.
Six counties had more than 100 active cases and one had more than 300.
Teton County had the highest number at 348; Laramie 293; Albany 204; Natrona 184; Uinta 152; Fremont 101; Campbell 99; Sheridan 75; Sweetwater 73; Park 48; Lincoln 43; Johnson 23; Goshen 22; Carbon 21; Washakie 16; Sublette 15; Platte 13; Crook nine; Converse eight; Weston seven; Big Horn and Hot Springs had five, while Niobrara had four.
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 118,098 the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus since the first case was detected in Wyoming in March 2020. Of those, 114,758 have recovered.
