The Howell County Health Department has received confirmation on the fourth COVID-19 case within the county.
Health officials state that the new COVID-19 case is a 43 year old female residing in West Plains. The individual had recently been tested by a West Plains provider.
Contact tracing has been conducted and contacts to the case have been notified and the individual and close contacts have been quarantined. The Health Department is working to provide daily County Testing Reports to the local media as well as on their Facebook page
The reports reflect the total number of county residents having been tested for COVID-19 as well as the results of the tests.