Mills County Public Health officials said Friday that have been notified of two additional positive confirmed cases of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Mills County. This brings the total number of confirmed positive cases to nine in our county. A total of 132 Mills County residents have been tested to date. The new cases are both adults, one in the age range of 18-40 years and one in the age range of 41-60. One virus was contracted through community spread and one through close contact with a positive case.

Mills County Public Health is currently conducting contact investigations to identify and follow-up with any people who had close contact with the ill individual. Close contacts are educated about self-monitoring their health status by our health department nurses. They are required to do daily symptom and temperature checks; as well as quarantine themselves for 14 days as a precaution.

Three of the cases have recovered and the remaining six cases are being followed by Mills County Public Health.