The Hancock County Health Department and Memorial Hospital report twenty-four (24) laboratory-confirmed cases during the week of February 20-26, 2022.   Of the 24 cases, seven (7) cases were males and seventeen (17) were females.  Of the twenty-four (24) cases nine (9) were vaccinated.  There have been a total of four-thousand-four-hundred-five (4405) COVID-19 cases in Hancock County; four-thousand-three-hundred forty-five (4345) people have recovered, fifteen (15) people are currently isolated, and forty-five (45) have passed.   

Beginning March 1, 2022, the Hancock County Health Department and Memorial Hospital will no longer be issuing a formal press release announcing Hancock County's weekly lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases.  COVID surveillance based on lab-confirmed positive tests will continue to be monitored through the Hancock County Health Department and can be obtained by calling the health department at 217-357-2171 ext 114.  

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