By Tim Mandese, Cowboy State Daily.
Wyoming’s active coronavirus case tally increased by 504 on Friday to end the week.
Wyoming Department of Health figures showed that the department received reports of 260 recoveries among those with confirmed or probable cases.
At the same time, the state reported 583 new laboratory-confirmed and 181 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 2,927 active cases for Thursday.
Four had more than 200 active cases and nine had more than 100.
Teton County had 696; Laramie 495; Natrona 380; Albany 290; Uinta 177; Fremont 151; Campbell 136; Sweetwater 129;Sheridan 110; Park 66; Lincoln 52; Johnson 42; Carbon 41; Converse 32; Goshen 27; Washakie 23; Sublette 21; Platte 17; Crook 14; Weston eight; Big Horn, Niobrara reported seven, while Hot Springs had six.
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 119,857 the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus since the first case was detected in Wyoming in March 2020. Of those, 115,358 have recovered.
