Caldwell County issued the following announcement on June 12.
| Laboratory-Confirmed Cases | Recovered Patients | Active Patients | ||
| 240 | 124 | 113 | ||
| Deaths | Hospitalized | Percentage of Tested Patients Who Are Positive | ||
| 3 | 5 | 4.76% | ||
| Total Tested | Total Negative | |||
| 5041 | 4226 | |||
| Confirmed Cases by Zip Code | ||||
| 28645 | 28638 | 28630 | 28601 | |
| 153 | 34 | 50 | 3 | |
| Confirmed Cases by Age | ||||
| 0-24 | 25-64 | 65+ | ||
| 48 | 176 | 16 | ||
The Caldwell County Health Department in conjunction with West Caldwell Health Council will hold a COVID-19 Drive-thru Testing Event on Tuesday, June 16, from 2-5 p.m. at South Caldwell High School. Testing is free, but people are asked to bring their insurance card and, if possible, download and complete the testing form found at www.caldwellcountync.org/coronavirus-covid-19/testing.
NCDHHS recommends testing for the following people:
- Anyone with symptoms of COVID-19
- Close contacts of known positive cases, regardless of symptoms
- People who live in or have regular contact with high-risk settings (e.g., long-term care facility, homeless shelter, correctional facility, migrant farmworker camp)
- People who are at high risk of severe illness (e.g., people over 65 years of age, people of any age with underlying health conditions)
- Minority populations
- Healthcare workers or first responders (e.g. EMS, law enforcement, fire department, military)
- Frontline and essential workers (grocery store clerks, gas station attendants, etc.) in settings where social distancing is difficult to maintain
- People who have attended protests, rallies, or other mass gatherings could have been exposed to someone with COVID-19 or could have exposed others.
Original source can be found here.
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