By Tim Mandese, Cowboy State Daily.
Wyoming’s active coronavirus case total increased by 35 on Friday.
Wyoming Department of Health figures showed that the department received reports of 42 recoveries among those with confirmed or probable cases.
At the same time, the state reported 69 new laboratory-confirmed and eight new probable cases for a total of 361 active cases on Friday.
Laramie had 69 cases, Fremont 43; Natrona 40; Teton 24; Albany 21; Sweetwater 19; Weston 18; Campbell and Goshen and Sheridan 15; Carbon 14; Platte nine; Park and Washakie eight; Big Horn and Lincoln six; Hot Springs and Sublette five; Johnson, Niobrara and Uinta four; Crook had three, while Converse reported two.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 155,246 the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus since the first case was detected in Wyoming in March 2020. Of those, 153,324 have recovered.
