CORRECTED, 4 p.m. Tuesday: Due to a change in Ellis County reporting methods, the numbers reported Monday were incorrect. The corrected story is below.
Ellis County averaged 18 new cases of COVID-19 per day in the last seven days, the health department reported Monday. The metric is a new reporting method also announced by the county Monday, and new cases between reporting periods is currently no longer available for the public.
RELATED: Ellis County announced Monday a change in its case reporting.
Hays Post has filed a Kansas Open Records Act request with county officials to return the new cases to the regular reporting days of Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
There are now 193 active cases of coronavirus in Ellis County, including six active hospitalizations, and 689 recovered cases.
The seven-day percent of positive tests rose to nearly 30 percent. Of the 7,580 total tests conducted on county residents, 11.3 percent have returned positive for coronavirus.
Since reporting began, there have been 885 total cases of COVID-19 in Ellis County, including three deaths. The number of total cases jumped from 738 since Friday as the county health department and Kansas Department of Health and Environment continues to work to make case reporting consistent. The state reported 870 cases in Ellis County on Monday.
