HANCOCK COUNTY REPORTS FOURTEEN CASES AND ONE DEATH RELATED TO COVID-19 FEBRUARY 17-22, 2021

Carthage, IL – February 21, 2021 – The Hancock County Health Department and Memorial Hospital report fourteen laboratory-confirmed positive COVID-19 cases and one death February17-21, 2021.  Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the individuals who passed away.

Cases include two male in their 60’s, one male in his 50’s, one male in his 40’s, one male in his 30’s and one male in his 20’s.  In addition, one female in her 80’s, one female in her 70’s, three females in their 60’s, one female in her 50’s, one female in her 20’s and one female in her pre-teens. There have been a total of one-thousand-six-hundred-sixty-four (1664) cases in Hancock County, one-thousand-five-hundred-eighty-six (1586) people have recovered, forty-two (42) people are currently isolated, two (2) people are hospitalized, and thirty-four (34) have passed.  

Symptoms of COVID-19 can vary, they can be mild or severe depending on the person and their health conditions. If you are experiencing symptoms, stay home, and contact your healthcare provider or the illness clinic at 217-357-0617 to determine if you should get tested. 

  Stay home when ill, wash hands often, and clean and disinfect highly touched surfaces.  Additionally, people should wear a face covering when 6 ft. distancing cannot be maintained.  A person should quarantine at home while waiting for COVID-19 test results to return.  This will lessen the spread of illness.  If the test result is positive, isolating away from others in your household and others will help lessen the chances of them getting sick.   Close contacts of a positive are asked to quarantine in an effort to limit exposure to others they typically would come in contact with.   Everyone has a role in reducing the spread of illness.  Check-out Memorial Hospital and Hancock County Health Department’s Covid-19 case updates at  https://www.mhtlc.org/news-resources/coronavirus-covid19-informaiton/