COVID-19 cases drop in Hill County

In a COVID-19 update held by the Hill County Health Department Friday Hill County Public Health Director and Health Officer Kim Berg said the area’s COVID-19 numbers look noticeably better after an uptick in COVID-19 cases earlier this month.

Berg said, as of last Thursday at 5 p.m., the county has only three active cases, one hospitalization and 18 people in quarantine being tracked by the department.

She said there have been no reinfections, nor breakthrough cases — a case of a person getting COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated — in the past two weeks.

She said the county ha...