Weekly Covid update shows cases increasing across Howard County

On Friday afternoon, the weekly Covid-19 Update was issued by the City of Big Spring, Howard County, and Emergency Management.

According to the release, City of Big Spring and Howard County officials were notified of 263 new positive COVID-19 test results for the week of Sept. 21, 2020.

To date, Howard County and Big Spring have had a total of 724 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases. The number of active cases increased from 130 to 377, an increase of 247 cases from last week.

The total number of people recovered from COVID-19