By The Wyoming News Exchange
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases seen in Wyoming since the illness was first detected here in mid-March grew by 29 on Tuesday.
However, the number of recoveries seen in all the cases recorded since the pandemic began grew more quickly, gaining 40 to total 1,274 among patients with both confirmed and probable cases. The Wyoming Department of Health, in its daily coronavirus update, said new cases were reported Tuesday in Albany, Big Horn, Campbell, Carbon, Laramie, Lincoln, Park, Sweetwater, Teton and Washakie counties. Sweetwater had the highest number of new cases, nine. The additions brought the total number of cases seen since March to 1,378.
The number of those patients to recover since the pandemic began increased by 40 on Monday to total 1,274, including 1,011 among patients with laboratory-confirmed cases of coronavirus and 263 among those with probable cases.
The Department of Health defines a recovery as occurring when a patient has gone for 72 hours without a fever — without using fever-reducing medicine — and has seen improvements in any respiratory problems.
The number of probable cases seen since the pandemic began was 333 on Monday. A probable case is defined as one where a patient has coronavirus symptoms and has been in contact with someone with a known case, but has not been tested.
The Health Department’s numbers indicated the number of active cases in the state on Monday was 419, including 349 patients with laboratory-confirmed cases and 70 patients with probable cases.
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