Mills County Public Health has been notified of two additional positive confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Mills County. This brings the total number of confirmed positive cases in the county to five. The two new cases are both adults, in the age range of 18-40 years, and they each contracted the virus through community spread.

Mills County Public Health is currently conducting contact investigations to identify and follow-up with any people who had close contact with the ill individuals. Close contacts are educated about self-monitoring their health status by our health department nurses. They are required to do daily symptom and temperature checks; as well as quarantine themselves for 14 days as a precaution.

In Mills County, to date, there have been 5 confirmed cases,three of which have recovered. A total of 103 individuals have been tested. There is still a great need for all residents to stay home as much as possible, stay away from groups of people and maintain a 6-foot distance from other individuals as there is substantial spread of COVID-19 throughout Iowa