As of Wednesday afternoon, the number of reported cases of COVID-19 in Greene County had increased 16 percent in the last seven days.
According to the Springfield-Greene County Health Department’s Dashboard, the county had a reported 16,895 cases of COVID-19, and 2,747 were active. There had been 247 deaths.
Hospital numbers remain high. There were 197 people in Springfield hospitals with COVID-19, and 54 were in critical care. Ninety-one of those hospitalized were from Greene County.
The Springfield-Greene County Health Department will host a media briefing at 3:30 Thursday afternoon. You can view it here.
