The administrator of the Hennessey Nursing and Rehab Center has confirmed two more COVID-19 related deaths at that facility, even as the number of active cases trend downward in most county zip codes.

In a text message exchange with the Times & Free Press, nursing home administrator Jill Vincent confirmed that a female resident and male resident who both tested positive for COVID-19 in a recent outbreak at the center died at the facility last week.

The female resident had been hospitalized with complications but then discharged back to the center when she appeared to improve, but was never able to fully recover, according to Vincent.

The male resident was never hospitalized and also died at the center, Vincent confirmed.

That brings the total deaths at the facility to four, but the two most recent deaths have not made their way to Friday’s official state data count maintained and released daily by the state health department.

Kingfisher County is still listed as orange – moderate risk of spread – on the weekly alert map released by the health department on Friday.

The alert map assigns colors based on a rolling average of each county’s new daily confirmed positive test results per 100,000 population over the previous seven days.

Among Kingfisher and its surrounding counties, Garfield County continues to lead with an average of 45.16 new cases per day per 100,000, the sixth highest in the state.

Kingfisher’s average Friday was 25.37 per 100,000, followed by Blaine County, also in the moderate risk category with 24.24 average cases per 100,000.

Logan and Canadian counties both had dropped to the low risk category, with 8.93 and 8.86 average daily cases per 100,000, respectively.

The health department reported 33 active cases for Kingfisher County Friday, including 17 in the Kingfisher zip code, 12 in Hennessey and three each in Dover and Okarche.