Boulder County Coronavirus Update: 178 New Cases Confirmed

BOULDER COUNTY, CO — Over the past week, 178 new cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in Boulder County, according to public health data. As of Tuesday, 1,278 people had tested positive for the virus since the outbreak began. The death toll in the county has reached 71.

Around 525 people have recovered in the county and 174 have been hospitalized since the outbreak began, according to Boulder County Public Health. More than 14,300 people have been tested in the county.

The agency released the following municipal breakdown of case numbers in the county, which include both probable and confirmed cases as of Tuesday:

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Longmont has the highest rate of cases per 100,000 people — 534.4, followed by Boulder (422.7) and Lafayette (366.1). Boulder's rate has gone up significantly after a surge of cases was linked to parties and protests in the city.

>> View the full Boulder County data report here.

The city of Boulder announced an amendment to its Abatement of Public Nuisance Code Friday in an effort to combat the spike in cases. The code change will allow the city to pursue abatement if a property repeatedly has noise violations or hosts large gatherings. The majority of new COVID-19 cases were confirmed after large gatherings in the University Hill neighborhood.

"It is disheartening that the city is forced to take additional action to gain compliance," Boulder City Manager Jane Brautigam said in a statement.

"But we will not allow the lives of our community-at-large to be further jeopardized by poor choices made by a few. We are hopeful this civil approach will send a message that there are concrete consequences to ignoring guidelines and regulations that are intended to protect each of us and our neighbors."

Officials have also notified the owners and representatives of 12 residences that have been identified as chronic violators of the code between March 16 and May 25, the city said.

Denver, Arapahoe and Weld counties consistently have the highest overall number of cases in the state; however over the past two weeks, Weld, Summit and Adams counties have had the highest case rates per 100,000 people.

As of Tuesday, 30,983 people have been infected with the coronavirus in Colorado among 288,079 people who have been tested since the outbreak began, health officials confirmed. Around 5,366 people have been hospitalized, and the death toll among people who tested positive for COVID-19 has reached 1,665.

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