Lane County Public Health (LCPH) was notified of two additional positive test results for COVID-19.  This makes a total of seventy-eight (78) positive tests, and one (1) presumptive case in Lane County.

The new cases are:

Individual in their  40s, Eug/Springfield, at home recovering. This case is EPI linked to an exiting case and was detected through disease investigation efforts.

A child under the age of 5, Eug/Springfield, stable at home. This case is an example of household transmission.

Individuals who had contact with these community members will be contacted by Lane County Public Health so they can work with their health care providers on next steps. Communicable disease investigations are underway. If a public contact exposure point is identified, that information will be shared with the public.

To see data related to COVID-19 in Lane County, please visit www.LaneCountyOR.gov/data.

* Presumptive cases are people without a positive PCR test who have COVID-19-like symptoms and had close contact with a confirmed case. Though not confirmed by a positive diagnostic test, presumptive cases have a high likelihood of having COVID-19 because of the specific nature of the symptoms and known exposure.

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Please note: Lane County will no longer provide proactive case updates on Saturday and Sunday as long as new case numbers remain low. New numbers will be published once per day on the weekends in the data table available atwww.LaneCountyOR.gov/data. Daily updates will still occur Monday–Friday.

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