A 64-year-old woman in the south end of Chaffee County succumbed to COVID-19 during the weekend, bringing the pandemic death toll to 16 in the county.
Since Dec. 29, 56 new cases of the virus have been reported, four of whom are staff members of Buena Vista Correctional Complex.
The countyâs positivity rate stands at 5.5 percent.
Person-to-person contact with a positive COVID-19 resident accounts for 70.4 percent of cases reported in the last month.
The removal of cases from the first outbreak at Chaffee County Correctional Complex from the Chaffee County Public Health COVID-19 dashboard resets the countyâs pandemic case totals.
The corrected case count is now 695 with 600 members of the general community, 38 Buena Vista Correctional Complex staff members who live in the county, and 13 Columbine Manor Care Center staff who live in the community and 44 residents from an outbreak that ran from April 11-May 29.
The 61-year-old inmate died Dec. 19 at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs.
The inmate was transported to the hospital on Dec. 13 with COVID-19-like symptoms. Cause of death was confirmed as COVID-19 on Dec. 20.Â
An ongoing outbreak at Buena Vista Correctional Complex, which began Oct. 21, has affected 217 inmates and 41 staff members to date.
This incident is the first death due to COVID-19 at the prison. Â
A previous outbreak which ran from July 10-Sept. 15, affected 197 inmates and 16 staff members.
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