HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — An Ottawa County woman in here late 70s has died from COVID-19. She is the first in this county attributed to the virus.
Her death is not among the 959 reported statewide, so far, but has renewed appeals by area residents to county health officials to release more details on those ill, according to Ottawa’s Health Department spokeswoman Kristina Weighmink, who said disclosing the number of ill people per zip code or community could unintentionally violate a person’s privacy in a small community or in a zip code where only one person has the virus.
So far, 56 Ottawa County residents have tested positive with more than a dozen hospitalized with the aggressive upper-respiratory virus. More than 800 tests conducted and reported. Weighmink said they are still watiting on reports from commercial labs. 33 are womena d 23 are men — almost half the people getting sick are between the ages of 40 and 59 years old.
In Allegan county, where only 216 people have been tested so far, 18 have been confirmed as having COIVD-19 and 39 are being monitoried for symptoms of the aggressive upper-respiratory virus.
