Warren County tipped over into the red phase of the Harvard Global Health Institute’s COVID-19 risk assessment dashboard on Saturday, the most recent day for which statistics are available.

They’re just 15 minutes out of the elementary school day.

Warren County sits just .6 percent outside the red zone of the Harvard Global Health Institutes risk assessment dashboard, according to numbers posted on Friday by the institute.

The number of positive COVID-19 cases in Warren County since the pandemic started jumped another 23 as of Friday night.

Thirty Indianola teens had come up with a special plan to celebrate Homecoming. But a stranger’s random act of kindness turned out to be the highlight of the evening.

It took Warren County 33 days to go from 900 cases of COVID-19 to 1,000. It took just nine days after that to go to 1,100.

Warren County is now averaging more than nine new cases of COVID-19 per day and 17.8 cases per 100,000 people, according to the Harvard Global Research Institute dashboard numbers from Monday, the most recent day from which statistics were available.

If you were looking forward to the lineup planned for the Des Moines Metro Opera’s 2020 Summer Festival, celebrate.

Coming up with “what’s for supper” on Friday nights can be tough.

Warren County added 16 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday in one of its biggest jumps in recent weeks, according to an email from Warren County Sheriff Brian Vos. Indianola went up five cases, Norwalk went up six and Carlisle had one additional case.