With the number of COVID-19 cases continuing to climb and because of high community transmission of COVID-19, the South Heartland District Health Department which serves Nuckolls, Clay, Webster and Adams counties remains in a COVID-19 Advisory area.

With increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases statewide, the State of Nebraska has reopened its COVID-19 dashboard to provide updates on the number of reported COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Brodstone Memorial Hospital continues to see an increase in the need for COVID-19 testing with a current positivity rate of nearly 20 percent....