DeWitt and Piatt Counties have some of the strongest COVID numbers in the area recently.

Director of the DeWitt/Piatt Bi-County Health Department, Dave Remmert is pleased with the trends locally and says that is a result of local residents, not the health department. He points out this is a trend from the last week across the state.

According to Remmert, the incidence rate for DeWitt and Piatt Counties remains rather high but he points out, most other metrics are very favorable comparatively speaking.

With Christmas behind us and the New Year's weekend ahead, Remmert hopes residents will practice the same caution they did with Thanksgiving. Because of the significance of Christmas to everyone, he is anticipating somewhat of a holiday spike.

Monday and Tuesday of last week, the Health Department reports 25 new cases of COVID in DeWitt County while Piatt County added 33 new cases.

With these additional cases, DeWitt County has had a total of 880 cases while Piatt County has had a total of 1025 cases. 

No additional fatalities have been reported since the Health Department's last update.  DeWitt Co has had a total of 18 deaths.  Piatt Co has had a total of 6 deaths.