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By Jim Angell, Cowboy State Daily
The total number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming increased to 513 on Monday when the state Department of Health reported the largest increase in confirmed cases seen since the pandemic began.
The department, in its daily coronavirus update, said 11 counties reported 62 new cases Monday, the largest single-day increase in confirmed cases since the disease was first detected in Wyoming in mid-March.
Although the number of people who recovered from the disease since March increased by 37 on Monday, the increase in new confirmed cases increased the total number of confirmed cases by 24.
Laramie County had the highest number of active cases with 100; Fremont was 90; Teton was 66; Sweetwater was 37; Albany was 31; Natrona and Uinta were 33; Park was 30; Big Horn was 19; Campbell was 17; Lincoln was 15; Carbon was 13; Sheridan was eight; Washakie had four; Goshen, Sublette, and Weston had three, and Converse, Crook, Hot Springs, and Johnson had two.
Niobrara and Platte had no active cases.
Active cases were observed in 432 people with laboratory confirmed coronavirus and 81 with probable cases.
Active cases are determined by adding the total of confirmed and probable coronavirus cases diagnosed since the disease first appeared in Wyoming on March 12, subtracting the number of recoveries during the same period among patients with confirmed and probable cases and taking into account counts the number of deaths attributed to the disease.
Although 24 Wyoming residents died as a result of the virus, two of those patients were living in Colorado at the time they were diagnosed with the disease and were not counted as confirmed cases in Wyoming.
The department reported that new laboratory-confirmed cases of coronavirus were recorded Monday in Albany, Campbell, Carbon, Fremont, Laramie, Lincoln, Natrona, Sheridan, Sweetwater, Teton and Uinta counties. Teton County experienced the highest growth with 15 new cases, while Laramie County reported 10 new cases.
Fremont County continued to have the highest number of confirmed cases reported since mid-March, 374; Laramie County had 261; Teton County had 187; Uinta County had 181; Sweetwater County had 168; Natrona County had 153; Park County had 80; Campbell was 77; Albany was 60; Lincoln was 47; Washakie was 39; Sheridan was 31; Big Horn was 27; Carbon was 21; Converse and Johnson were 18; Hot Springs and Sublette had 11; Crook and Goshen were nine, Weston had four; Platte had three and Niobrara had one.
The number of probable cases on Monday was set at 397. A probable case is one in which a patient has symptoms of coronavirus and has had contact with someone who has a confirmed case, but has not been tested for the disease.
The number of recoveries observed among patients infected since the first coronavirus case was 1,652, included among 1,336 patients with confirmed cases and 316 with probable cases.
Recovery is considered to have occurred when a patient has gone three days without fever and has seen an improvement in respiratory problems.
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