Bonner County holds steady at 4 cases

Panhandle Health District reported no new COVID-19 cases in Idaho’s five northern counties on Saturday.

There are four confirmed cases in Bonner County and 44 in Kootenai County.

Here are the latest statistics for the five counties, as of noon today, from PHD:

Confirmed cases: 48

No longer monitored: 24*

Hospitalizations: 5**

*We won’t use the term “recovered” as that could be misleading because we don’t know if a person can contract COVID-19 more than once. We prefer to use the term “no longer monitoring,” a Panhandle Health representative said.

A person is no longer being monitored when they have stayed home for our recommended period of time AND have not had a fever for at least 72 hours (that is three full days of no fever without the use medicine that reduces fevers) AND other symptoms have improved (for example, when your cough or shortness of breath have improved) AND at least 7 days have passed since your symptoms first appeared

**Hospitalizations is a tally of total hospitalizations of confirmed cases. This does not mean these patients are currently hospitalized, only that they were hospitalized for COVID-19 and are also confirmed positive with COVID-19.