The coronavirus has ebbed and flowed across the country and it is playing out that way locally.

Executive Director of the DeWitt/Piatt Bi-County Health Department Dave Remmert says the nature of this virus has been up and down in many parts of the United States and it is playing itself out that way locally but on a smaller scale. At the start of the week, there were 50 active cases combined between DeWitt and Piatt Counties.

The trends continue to be in people that do not require hospitalization and everyone is recovering. Remmert points out the death attributed to DeWitt County is still perplexing and there have been a few other individuals that have been removed from the case counts.

According to Remmert, as cases begin to crop up in the schools in the two-county area, they are not seeing many youths getting COVID and kids are not getting it at school.

Remmert recognizes the coronavirus is a very contagious disease and believes the focus of the impact of the virus is through hospitalization and fatality figures. He notes locally, those numbers are not significant.