Health Department Announces COVID-Related Death

  The Shelby County Health Department reported the county’s second death Tuesday due to COVID-19.

  The first death occurred in early September.

  As of Tuesday, there were 55 active cases county-wide, three of those individuals are hospitalized.

  According to the website suburbanstats.org, the 2019 population of Shelby County was 6,373. Since the pandemic began in March, there have been 340 positive cases in the county. Population data for 2020 is currently being complied by the U.S. Census Bureau.