FROM STAFF REPORTS

The number of new laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 cases in Iredell County has declined for three consecutive weeks.

Some 208 new cases were reported during the week ending January 26, increasing the cumulative number of cases of COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic in the county to 60,825.

Two new deaths attributed to COVID-19 have been reported in Iredell in January, increasing the county’s death toll to 540. Twelve COVID-19 deaths were reported in the county in December.

Eleven people, including nine county residents, who have tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized across the county at week’s end. The total number of hospitalizations has decreased by more than 50 percent in the past two weeks.