Oct. 2 COVID-19 update from the Lawrence-Douglas County health department.

Douglas County’s health department on Friday confirmed 20 new cases of COVID-19 since Thursday’s daily report.

After 27 cases were deemed inactive or past the infectious stage, Douglas County now has 404 active cases of the respiratory virus and has confirmed 2,411 cases overall since the pandemic began in March. The virus has killed 13 county residents, including three deaths announced Wednesday by Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. Currently, there are four patients at Lawrence’s hospital with COVID-19, the same number as Thursday.

The county’s 14-day moving average of new COVID-19 cases now sits at 15.8 cases per day, the lowest it’s been since mid-August when the University of Kansas was just beginning its mass entry testing program before reopening for the fall semester.

In its weekly community scorecard, Douglas County hit all of its goals over the past week: the average weekly number of COVID-19 cases decreased, only one high-risk outbreak was reported, the number of active cases per week decreased and less than 40% of beds and 20% of ventilators were in use at LMH Health.