COVID Cases Continue To Decline In Hancock County

There’s been another significant drop in the number of COVID cases in Hancock County.

Hancock Public Health is reporting 94 new cases, eight new hospitalizations and three new deaths for the week of February 11th through February 18th.

The previous week those numbers were 168 new cases, 15 new hospitalizations and six new deaths.

Hancock County is averaging 13 new cases per day and cases per 100,000 is 150.

The previous week it was 24 new cases per day and cases per 100,000 was 232.

49.7 percent of eligible residents are fully vaccinated while 53.5 percent of eligible residents have started the vaccine.

1,083 Hancock County residents have been hospitalized with COVID since the beginning of the pandemic and 251 have died.