Boulder County reports new death
Boulder County reported 44 coronavirus cases Friday and one new death, while the University of Colorado Boulder reported two additional cases.
A person died Sept. 21 and was in their 70s and associated with a long-term care facility, said Boulder County Public Health spokeswoman Chana Goussetis. The death was reported Friday.
The county sits at 4,998 cases, and the death toll rose to 84. There have been 227 hospitalizations and there are 252 disease investigations in progress.
Boulder County Public Health tweeted Friday evening shortly after 7 p.m. that the drive-up testing site at Stazio ball fields in Boulder will be closed Saturday and Sunday because of poor air quality. Those in need of an urgent test can get one in Adams County at Water World, 8801 North Pecos St. in Federal Heights, the tweet says.
CU Boulder’s coronavirus dashboard shows two positive coronavirus cases came from 61 diagnostic tests completed Thursday. The university also performed 879 screening tests Thursday, and there are four on-campus isolation spaces in use, or 1%.
To date, 1,114 individuals have tested positive on-campus from 5,622 diagnostic tests.
St. Vrain Valley School District’s coronavirus dashboard shows there are nine active, positive cases within the district: one student
at Erie High School, one student at Launched Virtual Academy, one staff member at Legacy Elementary School, two students at Longmont High School, one staff member at Mead High School, one student at Silver Creek High School, one staff member at Timberline PK-8 and one student at Westview Middle School.
There have been 43 cumulative cases in the district, the dashboard shows.
Boulder Valley School District also began its own coronavirus dashboard this week. District spokesperson Randy Barber said this is the beta version of the dashboard.
“We have hopes of making it more dynamic, but we are excited to have the information and letters easily accessible,” he said.
The dashboard shows one active case at Birch Elementary School, two at Broomfield High School, one at Eldorado PK-8 School, one at Flatirons Elementary School, one at Summit Middle School and one at Whittier Elementary School.
Cases have been closed at Early Connections and in the transportation district, the dashboard shows.
Boulder County’s five-day average of new daily cases Friday is 28, lower than the five-day average one week ago of 30.
Statewide, there have been 83,230 positive or probable cases. There have been 2,172 deaths among the cases, and of those, there have been 2,042 deaths because of the coronavirus. There have been 8,169 people hospitalized. Of Colorado’s roughly 5.7 million population, 1,059,831 people have been tested for the virus.