LINCOLN - Bryan Health said in a news release Thursday that it now has only nine patients with confirmed cases of the virus. That's down from 13 on Monday and 30 on June 1. It's the first time COVID-19 patient numbers have been in the single digits since the last week of April. Bryan also reported that only five of those patients are from Lancaster County, down from a high of 16 on May 26. The number of patients on ventilators dropped to five, down from seven on Monday and 11 on May 26.

CHI Health St. Elizabeth also said its numbers are declining. Spokeswoman Taylor Barth said the hospital has 15 COVID-19 patients, including seven from Lancaster County. That's down from 30 about three to four weeks ago.

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