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A fifth person in Callaway County has died from COVID-19. Health officials confirmed the news Tuesday.
Callaway County also reported an increase of 50 coronavirus cases since Friday. Active cases increased a lot, to 203.
Active coronavirus cases went up slightly in Boone County Tuesday. There were 63 new positives reported, and active cases went up to 338. Hospitalizations dropped a bit, from 70 to 66, and stay below capacity. The county reported its 13th death from COVID-19 Monday.
Mizzou reported six new positives Tuesday. Active cases dropped to 56.
Cole County had 129 new positives reported since Friday. Another 25 cases were confirmed Tuesday. Active cases went down to 226.
More from the Associated Press:
Two days after a “database extract error” incorrectly showed a massive one-day increase in coronavirus cases in Missouri, the problem remains unresolved. Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services spokeswoman Lisa Cox said Monday that the state is still working to pinpoint the cause of the problem, which is related to the automated, rather than manual, entry of data. On Saturday, Missouri reported more than 5,000 new COVID-19 cases, which would be nearly 3,000 more than the state’s previous record for a single day. But on Sunday, the health department said that number was wrong, blaming the process of migrating data into a new system.
