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Idaho adds 10 new COVID-19-related deaths, just over 500 combined cases on Sunday-Monday Ruth Brown, The Idaho Statesman Feb. 2—Idaho reported 417 new confirmed coronavirus cases for Sunday and Monday, and 102 probable cases, for a two-day total of 519, as Ada and Kootenai counties continued to produce the most new positives. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare no longer updates its coronavirus website, coronavirus.idaho.gov, on Sundays, so Monday's report will cover both days. Ada County confirmed 104 new cases on Monday, bringing the countywide total to 38,043 infec...

Idaho adds fewer than 300 COVID-19 cases Saturday as weekly average falls below 500 Idaho Statesman and last updated 2021-01-31 18:22:29-05 Idaho’s COVID-19 case counts continued to fall Saturday, bringing the state’s seven-day moving average of confirmed and probable cases even lower than in recent days and prompting state health officials to suspend data reporting on Sundays. Statewide, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and local health districts reported 229 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Saturday, along with 67 probable cases, for a total of 296 cases Saturday. In rece...

Health and Welfare adds COVID-19 vaccine tracker; Idaho reports more than 1,800 new cases and last updated 2020-12-15 21:49:59-05 The public can now keep track of how many COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Idaho using the tracker posted on the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s website. On Monday, health care workers at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg were the first Idahoans to receive the new Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. As of Tuesday, 38 vaccine doses had been administered statewide, according to IDHW. Hospitals throughout Idaho are expecting to receive their first vac...

Record positivity rates reported across Idaho as COVID-19 cases continue to soar Nicole Foy, The Idaho Statesman The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on Idaho continues to worsen by nearly every metric the state uses to track it. Thursday, updated positivity rates reported by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and local health districts broke records again. Roughly 20% of Idahoans tested were positive for the coronavirus last week, up from 18.3% the previous week. That means roughly one of every five Idahoans tested had the coronavirus last week. Positivity rates for four ...