Boulder County Coronavirus Update: 513 New Cases Confirmed

BOULDER COUNTY, CO — Over the past week, 513 new cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in Boulder County — most of which have been reported by the University of Colorado Boulder, according to public health data.

The campus saw a record single-day total of 130 new cases Thursday. Since students moved onto the CU Boulder campus Aug. 24, the university has reported 671 cases.

As of Thursday, 3,134 people in the county had tested positive for the virus since the outbreak began. The death toll has remained at 79 over the past three weeks.

Around 992 people have recovered and 204 have been hospitalized since the outbreak began, according to Boulder County Public Health. More than 50,000 people have been tested in the county.

Boulder County Public Health released the following municipal breakdown of case numbers in the county, which include both probable and confirmed cases as of Thursday:

In unincorporated Boulder County, 14 new cases have been reported over the past week, and there have been 203 cases since the outbreak began, the data shows.

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Rate of cases per 100,000 people:

• Boulder: 1399.6
• Longmont: 866.7
• Lafayette: 801.4
• Louisville: 703.4

>> View the full Boulder County data report here.

CU Boulder students were urged to begin a 14-day self-quarantine Tuesday after a spike in cases.

Students have been forced to move out of their dorm rooms in the Williams Village's Darley North tower to allow for more isolation space on campus amid the surge of cases. Two-thirds of the university's isolation space is full, officials said.

The spike of cases on Colorado campuses is contributing to the state's overall uptick in cases, Gov. Jared Polis said during a news conference Friday.

"The worry is that the college transmission leads to community transmission," Polis said.

Over the past week, 2,960 new cases of the coronavirus have been reported in Colorado, according to public health data.

As of Thursday, 63,145 people have been infected with the coronavirus in our state among 804,767 people who have been tested since the outbreak began, health officials confirmed.

Around 7,327 people have been hospitalized, and the death toll has reached 1,911.